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“When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].”

Should Mind Body Imagination Poor Wonder Praying Creatures Empty Enjoyment Terrified Belly Plight Empty Heads

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.”

Firsts Done Poor Half Drink Empty Generosity Moderation Jars Half Empty Dregs

Author:Hesiod

“It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poor Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretence

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.”

People World Want Feels Littles Long Different Sometimes Reason Asks Poor Drug Empty Thirds Plant Peasants Wrong Things Third World Wrong Reasons

Author:George Carlin

“Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana is a reflection of how rich India's poor are at heart. Without any obligation to put any money in the 0 balance accounts, they didn't open an empty account.”

Heart Poor Rich Balance Reflection Empowerment Empty Accounts India Obligation Ministers Prime Prime Minister

Author:Narendra Modi

“Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.”

Christian Spirit Found Religious Poor Holy Empty Unions Scripture Holy Spirit Chapters Dependence Delighted Spirit Of God Found You

Book:The Power of the Spirit

Source: The Power of the Spirit

“How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!”

World Would Be Literature Dark Poor Our Lives Empty Dull So Sad

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.”

Source: From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel

“Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.”

Way Heart Use Purpose Poor Grace Empty Vessel Saviour Using Me Empty Vessels

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.”

I Can Bigs Government Able Law Given Poor Research Empty Institutions University Bags Professors Permission Kenya Monsanto

Author:Wangari Maathai

“Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.”

Firsts Soul Light Poor Sun Understood First Time Empty My Soul Lacking Bud Germs

Book:Memories

Source: Memories

“He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.”

Mind Wisdom Might Poor Study Broken Empty Shoes Palaces Empty Mind

Author:Frank McCourt

“We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just”

Littles Said Names Lost Poor Wise Creatures Empty Fishes Hungry Nasty

Book:The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

“It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.”

“In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government”

World Want May Said Country Government Happiness Found Poor Streets Ignorance Taxes My Friends Empty Constitution Rational Jail Prisoner Distress Boast Beggar

Book:Collected Writings

Source: Collected Writings

“I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.”

Firsts Made Ends Eye Born Space Poor Impossible Rocks Huge Hair Horror Mountain Sitting Empty Flesh Gentle Remembered Cute Climbing Straws Empty Space Ledges

Author:Jack Kerouac

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

Ifs World Mind Might House Bits Poor Study Pieces Broken Needed Empty Shoes Treasure Cinema Interfere Furniture Palaces Rubbish Bits And Pieces Empty Mind Sweepstakes

Author:Frank McCourt

“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”

World Poor Ego Empty Mourning

Book:The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works

Source: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works

“No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

Men Poor Poverty Worship Empty Neighbor Stomach Worship God Petitions Daily Bread Empty Stomach Our Daily Bread Neighbor Love

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“To a man with an empty stomach food is God”

Men Poor Poverty Food Empty Stomach Poor Man Ending Poverty Empty Stomach

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”

Heart Poor Lord Ready Sorrow Empty Lays Distress Easter Tombs Halt Your Favorite Despondency

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.”

Men Believe Doe Soul Light Joy Poor Ideals Empty Sunshine Poor Man

Author:Robert Ley

“Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, - The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.”

Giving Heart Soul Whole Hands Running Turns Poor Darkness Doors Duty Blessing Empty Gold Sight Stores Thread Worthless Palms Starving Sustaining Slender Alms Turn Me

Author:James Russell Lowell