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The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Poverty is no sinne.

Poverty is the mother of health.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

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 shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

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.

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.