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“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.”

Mean Hands Seems Desire Passion Wealth Poverty Humility Honor Demand Empty Riches Vanity Display Crave Obscurity Furious

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]”

Way Wealth Poverty Empty Ads Ants No Friends Departed Barns

Author:Ovid

“O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!”

Real Poverty Empty Innocence Goods Pageantry

Book:A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. VI.

Source: A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays: Vol. VI.

“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

“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretense Pretension

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

“Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.”

May Made Feelings Might Social Compassion Poverty Darkness Capable Ethics Empty Endure Harvest Stewardship Intercourse Present Day Reaper

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.”

World Made Names Lost My Own Rooms Poverty Air Streets Objects Moon Empty Filled Aliens Fallen Sand Autumn Rough Abandoned Ashes Sonnet Tunnels Mute I Loved You Warehouse Plentiful

Author:Pablo Neruda

“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

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

Men Hard Wisdom Spirit Politics Poverty Economy Virtue Empty Liberalism Emptiness Bags

Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“Empty pockets make empty heads.”

Poverty Empty Pockets Empty Heads Empty Pockets

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empty calories - lots of calories - but no nutrition.”

People Problem Kids School Choices Poverty Exercise Right Now Eating Empty Lifestyle Fats Lunch Sugar Nutrition Symptoms Obesity Calories Lifestyle Choices School Lunch Proper Nutrition

Author:Tom Colicchio