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... for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to... More
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is... More
... it is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling—and... More
... it is only after years and years that you can speak of penury in the midst of opulence, of... More
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome. More
... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit... More
... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings... More
... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of... More
... what’s been building since the 1980’s is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames... More
...I really hope no white person ever has cause to write about me
because they never... More
...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and... More
...the hard work and poverty of my childhood ... turned out to be my greatest asset in later... More
1st Murderer. Where’s thy conscience now?...
2nd Murderer. I’ll not meddle with it. It... More
A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly... More
A hair plucked from a rich man is thicker than a poor man’s waist. More
A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other... More
A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. More
A poor person’s youth, like moonlight in winter, is never appreciated. More
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondency, an... More
A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own. More
A queen driven from her throne, naked, in winter snows, like Elizabeth of Hungary, suffers more... More
A society in which everyone works is not necessarily a free society and may indeed be a slave... More
A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty. More
A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress.... With his hospitable intellect... More
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The... More
Almighty Father, forgive me for saying the words I did in anger, shaming him for his poverty and... More
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad... More
Apothecary. My poverty, but not my will, consents.
Romeo. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. More
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They... More
As for us, my little friend, wee entered [the Communist Party] because we were tired of dying of... More
As on the highroad he who walks lightest walks with most ease, so on the journey of
life more... More
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of... More
As the fields fear drought in autumn, so people fear poverty in old age. More
At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents... More
Autolycus. I am a poor fellow, sir.
Camillo. Why, be so still; here’s nobody will steal... More
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and... More
Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested. More
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves... More
Better to endure hardship in youth than poverty in old age. More
Better to go from poverty to riches than from riches to poverty. More
Borrow a child and get on welfare.
Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the... More
Burglar! Banker—Father!
I am poor once more! More
Busy hands are never in want. More
But could a dream send up through onion fumes
Its white and violet, fight with fried... More
But how do the poor minority fare? Perhaps it will be found that just in proportion as some have... More
But the difficultest go to understand,
And the difficultest job a man can do,
Is to come... More
Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
Falstaff. I would it... More
Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see... More
Clothes make the poor invisible.... America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. More
Come, give thy soul a loose, and taste the pleasures of the poor.
Sometimes ‘tis grateful... More
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling... More
croppers rotting shacks
with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
where sentiment... More
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. More
Dame Poverty gave me my name,
And Pain godfathered me. More
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of... More
Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle... More
Do you remember an Inn, Miranda,
Do you remember an Inn?
And the cheers and the jeers of... More
Even a poor man can receive honors. More
Even the emperor has poor relations. More
Even the emperor has straw-sandaled relatives. More
Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. More
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels... More
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him;... More
Famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes,
Contempt and beggary... More
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor,—poor farmers. More
For I am shave as neigh as any frere.
But yit I praye unto youre curteisye:
Beeth hevy... More
For men must work, and women must weep,
And there’s little to earn, and many to... More
for the tourist’s
brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
the ragged papooses... More
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath... More
For where’er the sun does shine,
And where’er the rain does fall,
Babe can never... More
For you always have the poor with you... More
Four spectres haunt the Poor—Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to... More
From behind the red gates comes the stink of wine and meat, while along the road sides lie the... More
Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity. More
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. More
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it... More
Harlem, your hotel is overnamed, your children
are raggedy-assed but you go on,... More
He that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me... More
He who has been impoverished for a long time ... who has long stood before the door of the mighty... More
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. More
Her wine was dew o’ the wild white rose
Her book a churchyard tomb. More
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. More
Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to... More
Herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom. It is still her use
To let the... More
Here’s a fish hangs in the net like a poor man’s right in the law; ‘twill hardly come out. More
His poor self,
A dedicated beggar to the air,
With his disease of all-shunned... More
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the... More
Houndsditch was ... a crumbling and smoke-grimed necropolis in boarded windows, mummified... More
How dost, my boy? Art cold?
I am cold myself. Where is this straw, good fellow?
The art... More
How to live well on nothing a year. More
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required... More
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. The shadows of poverty and meanness gather... More
Hunger and cold produce thieves. More
Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best... More
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. More
I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor. More
I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with... More
I can’t talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. More
I did my research and decided I just had to live it. More
I had a feeling that out there, there were very poor people who didn’t have enough to eat. But... More

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