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The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
It is a bad thing that many from being rich should become poor; for men of ruined fortunes are sure to stir up revolutions.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?
But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb
Therichman'swealthishisstrongcity: thedestructionof the poor is their poverty.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the L; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord G of hosts.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs isthe kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessedarethepeacemakers: for theyshall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness'sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessedare ye, whenmenshall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Jesus answered and said unto them,Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
For yehavethepooralwayswithyou; but me yehavenot always.
For thepooralwaysyehave withyou; but meyehavenot always.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and havenotcharity,Iam becomeassounding brass, ora tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all mygoodstofeed thepoor, and though Igivemy body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not herown, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Asunknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
All things they have in common, being so poor, And their one fear, Death's shadow at the door. Each sundown makes them mournful, each sunrise Brings back the brightness in their failing eyes.
The modern novel has been many things, and functioned at many levels. It would keep D.H. Lawrence poor, and make Jilly Cooper and Jeffrey Archer rich.
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, and a'that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a'that! For a'that, and a'that, Our toils obscure, and a'that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a'that.
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.
Des pauvres, c'est-a' -dire des gens dont la mort n'inte resse personne. The poorthat is, the people whose death interests no one.
Bells, the poor man's only music.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
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He found it inconvenient to be poor.
Where Plenty smilesalas! she smiles for few, And those who taste not, yet behold her store, Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore, The wealth around them makes them doubly poor.
The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.
It is said that the children of the poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
He ate and drank the precious Words, His Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was Dust.
'Twonations; betweenwhomthere isnointercourseand no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets; who are formed bya different breeding, are fed by a different 276 food, are ordered by different manners, and are not governed by the same laws.' 'You speak of'said Egremont, hesitatingly.'THE RICH ANDTHE POOR.'
To bea poor manishard, buttobe a poorraceina land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poornot that men are wickedbut that men know so little of men.
Sir Patrick died that nightjust as the company rose to drink his health with three cheers, he fell down in a sort of fit, and was carried offthey sat it out, and were surprised, on enquiry, in the morning, to find it was all over with poor Sir Patrick.
Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.
The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they no longer love.
Le poireau, c'est l'asperge du pauvre. The leek is the asparagus of the poor.
No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
Likethemain-travelled road of life it istraversed by many classes of people, but the poor and the weary predominate.
The life of the journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short. So is his style.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Though very poor, may still be very blest.
Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.
The effect of trade and commerce with respect to most civilized states is to send out of their countries what the poor, that is, the great mass of mankind, have occasion for, and to bring back, in return, what is consumed almost wholly bya small part of those nations, viz. the rich. Hence it appears that the greater part of manufactures, trade and commerce is highly injurious to the poor as being the chief means of depriving them of the necessaries of life.
The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Clothes make the poor invisible too: America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
'Bed,'as the Italian proverb succinctly puts it,'isthe poor man's opera.'
Omnis cupidus at avarus contra naturam nititur et molitur. Natura namque pauperem adducit in mundum; natura pauperem reducit a mundo. Every covetous and avaricious man struggles and strives against nature.Fornature bringshim intotheworld poor, and takes him out of it poor.
Commitment tothe poor is based on the Gospel: it does not have to rely on some political manifesto.
There's nothing surer, The rich get rich and the poor get children. In the meantime, in between time, Ain't we got fun.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Four spectres haunt the poorold age, accident, sickness, and unemployment.We are going to exorcise them.We are going to drive hunger from the hearth.We meantobanishtheworkhousefromthehorizonofevery workman in the land.
The root of Evil, Avarice That damn'd ill-natur'd, baneful Vice, Was Slave to Prodigality, That noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employed a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more; Envy itself, and Vanity, Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness, In Diet, Furniture and Dress That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made That very Wheel that turned theTrade.
And to this day is every scholar poor; Gross gold from them runs headlong to the boor.
If you were poor fifty years ago, it meant you didn't have enoughto eat.If you're poornow, it meansyouonly have one car.
I am more poor than you think.
When you see how in this happy country the lowest and poorest member of society takes an interest in all public affairs; when you see how high and low, rich and poor, are all willing to declare their feelings and convictions; when you see howa carter, a common sailor, a beggar is still a man, nay, even more, an Englishmanthen, believe me, you find yourself very differently affected fromtheexperienceyoufeelwhenstaring atoursoldiers drilling in Berlin.
The poor sleep little.
Inopem me copia fecit. Plenty has made me poor.
Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him 'till they burst.
She is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.
Restless, he rolls about from whore to whore, A merry Monarch, scandalous and poor.
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that therichhaveno right to the property of the poor.
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as an art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
'I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.'
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is povertyour first dutya duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificedis not to be poor.
I'm one of theundeserving poorup agen middle-class moralityall the time What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
The beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread, Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one chained friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go.
Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Ihave justcausetomakea pitiful defence of poor poetry, which from almost the highest estimation of learning is 790
The rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension, of the society.On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.
All the nice people were poor; at least, that was a general axiom, the best of the rich being poor in spirit.
They lounge at corners of the street And greet friends with a shrug of shoulder And turn their pockets out, The cynical gestures of the poor.
Taa« ke my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad.
Remember, it is as easy to marrya rich woman as a poor woman.
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
I've beenrichand I've beenpoor.Believeme, honey, rich is better.
It takes perhaps a thousand poor musicians to produce one virtuoso.
Of course, being fatally poor and dingy, it was wise of Gerty to have taken up philanthropy and symphony concerts.
Weary men, what reap ye?Golden corn for the stranger. What sow ye?Human corpses that wait for the avenger. Fainting forms, hunger stricken, what see ye in the offing? Stately ships to bear our food away, amid the stranger's scoffing. There's a proud array of soldierswhat do they round your door? They guard our master'sgranaries from the thin hands of the poor. Pale mothers, wherefore weeping? Would to God that we were dead Ourchildren swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Had I the heavens'embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.
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