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“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.”

Self Philosophy Helping Force Poverty Teach Practice Taught Reasoning Self Taught

Author:Diogenes

“Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.”

Feels Philosophy Individual Responsibility Poverty Conditions Blessing Normal Enjoyment Abundance Sympathy Social Responsibility Individual Responsibility

Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897

“the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality.”

Philosophy Reality Poverty Blessing Matrimony

Book:Romance and Reality

Source: Romance and Reality

“Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.”

Men World May Philosophy Turns Poverty Grace Proud Misery Contempt Consolation Pardon Sullen Sturdy

Author:Richard Cecil