Poor Quotes
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As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.
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The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.
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Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.
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It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.
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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
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As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
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In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
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My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.
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The covetous man is always poor.
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Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.
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Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
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Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.
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I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
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It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.
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It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.
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In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.
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That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.
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It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.
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Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the beach, there were a high percentage of beach beauties sitting very close to us and/or sauntering repeatedly past. And he never looked up once. I snort. "You poor handsome thing. If only you were ugly, then girls wouldn't have to throw themselves at you all the time. I could break your perfect nose for you, if it'd make your life easier.
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I don't believe as much as you write about it, you truly know how down it was and how poor and how bad it was.
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I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
