Beggar Quotes
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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
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A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.
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How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.
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You use the vertical edge as the point of reference, instead of the horizontal edge. I have a picture of a beggar, where there's an arm coming into the frame from the side. And the arm is parallel to the horizontal edge and it makes it work. It's all games, you know. But it keeps it interesting to do, to play.
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Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
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When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
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They are but beggars that can count their worth.
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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks
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A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
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To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
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Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.
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I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason – but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary
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Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.
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I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.
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You can't make cheese from rats. … It's hard enough just milking the little beggar.
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I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.
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True that life is given, And received. But truer still: The single-act of giving Makes the offerer the beggar, too
