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Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
When you're really poor, everything you see
is something you can't have.
When you're really poor, everything you see
is something you can't have.
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to read more
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
