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Poverty Quotes
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Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
Poverty is the step-mother of genius. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too. (Quote by - Ching-an)
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. (Quote by - Antiphanes)
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)
When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have. (Quote by - Patrick Duncan)
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments. (Quote by - George Gilder)
Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances. It is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. (Quote by - John Dryden)
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it. (Quote by - Melville D. Landon)
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Patiently bear the burden of poverty. (Quote by - Dionysius Cato)