| And plenty makes us poor. -- John Dryden |
| Author:
Dryden, JohnEra:
1631 |
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| You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author:
Beecher, Henry WardEra:
1813 |
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| We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. -- Anne Swetchine |
| Author:
Swetchine, AnneEra:
1782 |
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| The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich. -- Saadi |
| Author:
SaadiEra:
1184 |
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| It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. -- Edmund Spenser |
| Author:
Spenser, EdmundEra:
1552 |
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| All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. -- Walter Bagehot |
| Author:
Bagehot, WalterEra:
1826 |
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| Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. -- Horace |
| Author:
HoraceEra:
-65 |
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| If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest the heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. -- Euripides |
| Author:
EuripidesEra:
-480 |
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| You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. -- David Lloyd George, 1st Earl of Dwyfor |
| Author:
George, David LloydEra:
1863 |
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| All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -- Plato |
| Author:
PlatoEra:
-427 |
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| Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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