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.

Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free,
And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
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Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free,
And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
Glad of the sun and rain,
Upright, serene, humane,
Contented with the fortune of a day.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

Poverty is no sinne.
[Poverty is no sin.]

Poverty is no sinne.
[Poverty is no sin.]

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.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man.