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“Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!”

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Author:Rumi

“A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!”

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Author:Charles Lamb

“Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.”

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Author:Robert B. Leighton

“Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.”

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Author:George MacDonald

“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.”

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Book:Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Picture of Dorian Gray