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“Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!”

Men Kind Children Art Dream Mother Poor Childhood Seasons Infinite Rounds Sweetest Poor Man Radiance Slumber Huts Infinite Hope

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Historian

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Historian

“Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.”

Knows Men World Way Reality Lying Poor Practice Products Ideals Perfection Scales Alas Approximation

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“The situation that has not its duty, its ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy ideal; work it out therefrom, and, working, believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself.”

Men Believe Poor Situation Duty Fool Ideals Miserable Working It Thyself Despicable

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.”

Poor Tree Cry Storm Whips Dreary Toads Harbinger

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

“The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.”

People Men World Believe May Belief Poor Forever Knowing Streets He Man Arms Creatures Doctrine Not Knowing Uncertain Wounded Powerless

Author:Phillips Brooks

“[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.”

Poor Ears Dear

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]”

Mind Kind Women Pleasure Poor Weak Dear Nemo Weak Women

Author:Juvenal

“Earlier research has shown that poor blood flow can damage these parts of the brain. So one theory is that exercise may prevent damage and might even help repair these areas by increasing blood flow.”

May Helping Might Poor Brain Blood Theory Exercise Research Areas Flow Damage Blood Flow

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.”

Ifs Men Done Facts Government Wealth Poor Rich Honest Mass Worthwhile Distribution Doubted Distribution Of Wealth

Author:Clarence Darrow

“It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.”

Children Opportunity Given Wealth Poor Rich Too Much Advantage Misfortunes Great Opportunity

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.”

Ifs Humans America Joy Individual Nations Wealth Poor United States Gone Crime Army Homeless Prey Filth Soulless Squalor

Author:Emma Goldman

“Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]”

Men Giving Poor Increase Stores

Author:George Herbert

“Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.”

Ifs Humans Hard Poor Human Nature Pity Contempt Alas Degenerates

Author:John Godfrey Saxe

“Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.”

Art Nations Poor England Ill Thee Devoted Hunts Prey Mock Deer Swarms

Author:William Cowper

“The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.”

Thinking Poor Rich Bears Weak Fatigue

Author:William Cowper

“Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.”

Reason Poor Poverty Rich Failing Deserve Misery Folks Reason Why Idleness

Book:Ballads, metrical tales and other poems

Source: Ballads, metrical tales and other poems

“Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.”

Death Certain Natural Poor Willing Quiet Approach Blessed Lays Burden Immortality Contemplating Weary Fanaticism Rapture Unbelief Dissolution Composure Delirious

Author:Robert Southey

“It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.”

Mind Poor Watches Trouble Greatness Notes Noble Neglect Scorn Trifles Upstart

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson ...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Biographical Memoir

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson ...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and Biographical Memoir

“Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?”

Knows Mean Seems Able Born Poor Knowing Conscience Intellect

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.”

Seems Certain Poor Poverty Method

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.”

Giving Humans Doe Philosophy Shows Religion Heaven Poor Levels Rich Equal Standards Unhappy Enjoyment Aspire Hereafter Rich And Poor Dealings

Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller

“If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”

“To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.”

Knows Able Poor Poverty News Good News

Author:Mother Teresa

“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.”

Thinking Knows World Should Firsts Form Names Given Poor Existence Accepting Poverty First Time Conclusion Awards Poorest Homage

Author:Mother Teresa

“To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.”

Knows Poor Know How Rich Enchanting

Book:Endless night

Source: Endless night

“We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.”

Heart Left Wish Imagination Poor Half Gone Instant Shutters

Book:Pericles and Aspasia

Source: Pericles and Aspasia

“Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.”

Men God Poor Lord Plans Eternal Devices Schemes Fathom

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.”

People Peace Poor Rich Growing Prosperity Contrast Rich And Poor Rich Or Poor Harshness

Book:Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings

Source: Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings

“To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]”

Children Said Earth Poor Sun Dog Mines Type Possession Commencement Usurpation Poor Children

Author:Blaise Pascal

“There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.”

People Differences Poor Class Middle Middle Class Poor People

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.”

Poor Plenty Satiety

Author:Michael Drayton

“The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!”

Men Death Dies Poor Common Air Sea Fields Bird Fishes Thee Beast Momentary Good God Poor Life

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.”

Ifs Giving May Poor Poverty Virtue Golden Thee Disadvantages Dishonor Ragged

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.”

Poor Gold Chains Thieves

Author:Francis Quarles

“Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.”

Wells Mean Children Done Together Mother Poor Poverty Planets Percent Absolutes Majority Population Refugee

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.”

Poor Forgiveness

Book:Out of my time

Source: Out of my time

“In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.”

Age Games Love Is Poor Dating Companion Delicate Fatigue Eyelids Flirtation Pining

Author:Marya Mannes

“Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?”

Thinking World Poor This World Regard Innocent Fancy Villain Lambs Sharks Goldfish

Book:Fanny

Source: Fanny

“To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.”

People Ifs Motivation Poor Millions Feet Missing Six Shoulders Thirty Convince Over You Embarrassed

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.”

World Soul God Earth Poor Lord Dear Breathe Thanks Grass Blades Dew Saviour Blades Of Grass Dear Lord

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler.”

Thinking Guy Poor Inches Mary Rulers

Author:Mae West

“The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.”

Giving Real Poor Birth Bird Storks

Author:Wilson Mizner

“Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.”

Poor Prove Praise Merit Greedy

Author:Plutarch

“A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.”

Ifs Poor Tree Effects Mass Species Forests Sublime Disagreeable

Book:Pt. 3, sections 1-2 of the imaginative and theoretic faculties

Source: Pt. 3, sections 1-2 of the imaginative and theoretic faculties

“Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.”

Firsts Littles Doe Hands Natural Poor Results Civilization Hatred Admirable Housework Little Money

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.”

Ifs Feels Wealth Poor Rich Revolution Bloody Rich And Poor

Book:The Thinking Reed

Source: The Thinking Reed

“If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.”

Ifs Asks Poor Saint Communist

Author:Dorothy Day

“a self-made martyr is a poor thing.”

Made Self Poor Sacrifice Martyr Self Made

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.”

Care Kids Poor Poverty Sick Health Care Counterparts

Author:Anna Quindlen

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