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“Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright”
Benjamin Franklin
“Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.”
Oscar Wilde
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”
Socrates
“The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them”
Bill Vaughn
“Remember the poor - it costs nothing”
Mark Twain
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.”
James Allen
“It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.”
Scottish Proverb
“Pride and poverty don't get along, but often live together.”
Proverb
