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“Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’”

Wells Use Rich Doors Ignorant Scholar Sage Nobility Flocks

Author:Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

“What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.”

“Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.”

Dream Hours Poor Rich Doors Subtle Purple Fling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.”

Way Needs Mean States Natural Wonder Rich Doors Inspire Ought Creatures Universal Affair Delight Creator Satisfied Savior Joyful Wholeness Employed Flourishing Natural Gifts Shalom

Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.”

Men Poor Poverty Rich Doors Privilege Block Prize Brat

Author:George MacDonald

“It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.”

Men Should Has Beens Made Matter Feelings Home Seems Earth Dies Poor Rich Plans Doors Cry No Matter What Angry Ill Made It Perpetual Beggar Starvation Rich And Poor Rich Man Feeling Sad

Author:George Sand

“Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.”

Might Poor Rich Written Doors Policy Canada

Book:Canada and the Canadian Question ...

Source: Canada and the Canadian Question ...

“He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.”

Men Want Feels Mean Littles States Poor Rich Doors Rings Golden Moderation Plague Rich Man Hold Fast Golden Mean

Book:Horace in English

Source: Horace in English

“The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.”

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.”

Life Hands Dies Poor Knowledge Rich Doors Experience Lays Famine Hideous Bleak Merriment Sated

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.”

Men Doe Desire Wealth Sleep Poverty Virtue Rich Doors Limits Satisfaction Happy Setting Settings Miserable Being Happy Beggar Rich Man Tibetan Miserable People

Author:Dalai Lama

“There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.”

Way Needs Two Light Energy Rich Doors Huge Amount Percent Raises Leaving Enormous Two Ways Refrigerators

Author:Bill Nye

“We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.”

Years Character Stories Running Rich Doors Crazy Nfl Uncles

Author:Jeff Schaffer

“Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.”

Firsts War Lasts Values Wealth Poor Rich Doors Economic Conversation Wings Favors Agendas Resorts Right Wing Undercut

Author:Jim Wallis

“I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.”

Thinking Rich Doors Opening Amazing Things

Author:Anne Waldman

“One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.”

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Author:Irenaeus of Lyons

“It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees Lazarus not with any other righteous man, but in Abraham's bosom. For Abraham was full of love, but the man is convicted of cruelty. Abraham sitting before his door followed after those that passed by, and brought them into his house, the other turned away even them that abode within his gate.”

Men May House Views Rich Doors He Man Sitting Cruelty Gates Exposed Righteous Offended Bosoms Abraham Rich Man Abode Lazarus Righteous Man

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.”

Home Kids School Young Rich Doors One Thing Hundred Neighborhood Embarrassing Groceries Delivery Back Doors

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

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