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“But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.”

World Want Poverty Figures Estates

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope ... Collated with the best editions: by Thomas Park

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope ... Collated with the best editions: by Thomas Park

“He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.”

Ifs Looks Mean Helping Would Be Eye Poverty Conditions Bears Quiet Casts His Eyes Look Up Estates

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.”

“Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.”

Men Shows Feelings Poverty Greatness Travel Treats Encounters Great Men Estates Brushes Slate Pastures Geologist Limestone

Book:Essays (Annotated Edition)

Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)

“Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.”

Mind Looks Play Shows Poverty Equal Rounds Owners Jail Estates Wrecks

Book:Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete

Source: Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete

“I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.”

Said Hands Party Poverty Fine Estates Honorable Indication Inefficiency

Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.”

Hands Poverty Luxury Estates Barren Fertile Goth

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.”

Mind Wells Poverty Produce Estates

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).”

Ifs Want Two Spiritual Used Accepting Poverty Materials Circumstances Opposites Financial Refuse Riches Estates Two Roads

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection