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Source: A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness

“As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.”

Source: The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford

“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?”

“Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.”

Poor Politician Comfort Praise Dinner Bread Thrive Sinner Cake Virtuous Verses Windy Caviar

Book:A Short Walk from the Station

Source: A Short Walk from the Station

“I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.”

Law Poor Ought Spectacles Eyesight Poor Eyesight

Book:Dr. Lavendar's People

Source: Dr. Lavendar's People

“... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?”

Wells Whole Fall Poor Gold Blame Dust Iron Unjust Clay Brass

Book:Around Old Chester

Source: Around Old Chester

“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

“We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.”

People Knows Faces Poor Poverty Rich Photograph Poor People Rich And Poor Affluence

Author:Dorothea Lange

“I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.”

People World Pain Causes Poor Existence Rich Strange Poor People Rich People Rich And Poor Strange Things Very Sad

Author:Evita Peron

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“Since, by your greatness, you Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor, As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.”

Men Should Earth Heaven Water Poor Sun Rich Greatness Comfort Goodness Clouds Dry Barren Rich Man

Author:Cyril Tourneur

“far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.”

Littles Country Home Would Be Lasts Dies Poor Tree Far Away

Book:The House of the Spirits: A Novel

Source: The House of the Spirits: A Novel

“Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest waves of human destiny Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.”

Humans Poor Destiny Sea Holy Promise Blessing Wave Oil Heavenly Cheer Sabbath Hail Stormy Holy Days Stormy Seas

Book:Dictionary of poetical quotations

Source: Dictionary of poetical quotations

“The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.”

Two America Opportunity Nations Poor Race Poverty Rich Car Crisis Neighbor Rings Divided Alarms Rich And Poor Two Nations

Author:Arianna Huffington

“As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.”

People Feels Humans Wells Enough Poor Poverty Issues Century Materials Draws Accounts Obvious Psychological Well Being Adequate Twentieth Century Deprivation Yardsticks

Book:Towards a true refuge

Source: Towards a true refuge

“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.”

“Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!”

People Has Beens Bits Poor Stones Down And Woods Treated Reputation Idols Idolatry Knocking

Author:Mary Russell Mitford

“The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.”

“In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.”

Humans May Poor Class Rich Middle Media Fashion Middle Class Endeavor Adopted Social Change Childbirth Filters

Author:Jessica Mitford

“Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is in short order sprayed, sliced, pierced, pickled, trussed, trimmed, creamed, waxed, painted, rouged and neatly dressed - transformed from a common corpse into a Beautiful Memory Picture.”

Would Be Today Beautiful Order Memories Poor Common Funeral Transformed Alas Corpses Counterparts Parlor Beautiful Memories

Book:The American Way of Death Revisited

Source: The American Way of Death Revisited

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