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Leave the poor
Some time for self-improvement. Let them not
Be forced to grind the bones out read more
Leave the poor
Some time for self-improvement. Let them not
Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms
For bread, but have some space to think and feel
Like moral and immortal creatures.
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]
Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]
One must be poor to know the luxury of living.
One must be poor to know the luxury of living.
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.
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.
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.
Living from hand to mouth.
Living from hand to mouth.
