Best poverty & comfort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.”

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous : to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi, His Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies : Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd

“To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.”

Giving Eye Death Poverty Comfort Apparel

Author:Charles Dickens

“Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.”

Men Age Young Wealth Poverty Learning Comfort Standing Riches Old Age Young Man Serving Ornaments

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Writing Matter Reality Social Loses Simple Poverty Strange Comfort Sight Victim Complexes Phenomenon Fades Elusive Paradoxical Personal Matter Simple And Complex

Author:Dorothy Day

“A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.”

Father Poverty Proud Comfort Historical Crush Grandfather Sensibility Be Proud Great Grandfather

Book:Spillville: A Collaboration

Source: Spillville: A Collaboration

“The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”

Want Giving Mean Hard Age Action Enjoy Born Hours Wealth Pleasure Poverty Clear Comfort Conscience Labor Guilt Wealth And Poverty

Book:The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

“O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The captive, bending with the weight of bonds, And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.”

Mind Pain Hope Poverty Sweet Comfort Disease Weight Load Shed Smooth Pillow Captives Bending Flatterer

Author:Richard Glover

“When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Wells Looks Children Persons Poverty Comfort Tough Hungry Well Being Asia Insensitive Malnutrition Look At Yourself Tough Person

Author:Ratan Tata

“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”

Poor Poverty Rich Depends Comfort Philosophical

Author:Voltaire

“...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.”

Men Way Love Giving Made Seems Age Fighting Natural Poverty Taught Bears Comfort Husband Longing Meg

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”

People Loses Poverty Comfort Sight

Author:Dorothy Day

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.”

Poverty Comfort Misfortunes Refuge True Friend Mischief True Life Misfortunes Of Others Noble Deeds Prime Of Life

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

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