Today Quotes
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In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less.John Christian Bovee
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.G. K. Chesterton
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.Benjamin Franklin
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.Greek
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.Johnson
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.Sidney Madwed
There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.Seneca
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.John Steinbeck
True poverty does not come from God.Yiddish Proverb