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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 made Gay Rich and Rich Gay.
It is a bad thing that many from being rich should become poor; for men of ruined fortunes are sure to stir up revolutions.
Political economy tracesinanabstract way theeffects of the desire to be rich; and nations must nowadays abound in that passion if theyare to have much poweror respect in the world.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Therichman'swealthishisstrongcity: thedestructionof the poor is their poverty.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
A labouring manthat isgivento drunkennessshall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent emptyaway.
There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
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.
Esurientes implevit bonis, et divites dimisit inanes. He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away. See Bible (NewTestament) 115:23.
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.
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.
The man who dies richdies disgraced.
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
It's not a sin to be rich anymoreit's a miracle.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
Poor Little Rich Girl. 239
One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.
'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.'
Be riche in patience, gif thow in gudis be pure; Quho levis mirry, he levis michtely: Without glaidnes availis no tresour.
Aux colonies, l'infrastructure e conomique est e galement une superstructure. La cause est conse quence: on est riche parce que blanc, on est blanc parce que riche. In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.
Let me tell you about the very rich. Theyare different from you and me. See Hemingway 394:12.
Of one so young, so rich in nature's store, Who could not say,'tis pity she's a whore?
La majestueuse e galite des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor tosleep under bridges, to beg inthestreets and to steal bread.
If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.
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.
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
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.
She taught me what her uncle once taught her: How easily the biggest coal block split If you got the grain and hammer angled right. The sound of that relaxed alluring blow, Its co-opted and obliterated echo, Taught me to hit, taught me to loosen, Taught me between the hammer and the block To face the music. Teach me now to listen, To strike it rich behind the linear black.
He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, 'The very rich are different from you and me.'And somebody had said to Julian,'Yes, they have more money.' See Fitzgerald 325:3.
Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.
In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.
Ithad the effect, as was ludicrously said, of making Gay rich, and Rich gay.
There's nothing surer, The rich get rich and the poor get children. In the meantime, in between time, Ain't we got fun.
All I am or was is rich, and that's all I ever wanted to be.
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 rich don't have children; they have heirs.
If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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.
Just because you're rich doesn't mean you're not cheap.
'I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.'
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.
As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life; nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.
Remember, it is as easy to marrya rich woman as a poor woman.
She was rich in apparel, but not bedizened with finery She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.
I've beenrichand I've beenpoor.Believeme, honey, rich is better.
I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars.
To watch him fumbling with our rich and delicate English language is like seeing a Se' vres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
No matter how we definetheterm,Canada has an acute shortage of rich people. 916
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