Poor Quotes
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
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Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.
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Whoever desires is always poor.
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He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.
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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor
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I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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Let the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.
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Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.
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The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time
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Being poor is a frame of mind.
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If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
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Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.
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I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.
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When you're poor and black in America, you stand a greater chance of going to prison for something you didn't do.
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I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.
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Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry.
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When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
