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“Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.”

Way Feels Seems Evil Felt Poverty Best Way Respectable

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.”

“Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.”

Felt Pleasure Poverty Sweet Chains

Book:William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.”

“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Years Has Beens Young Girl Felt Wealth Freedom Marriage Poverty Five Giving Up Married Twenties Five Years Fifty Dolls Twenty One Housekeepers

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, `I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going to open a college. I give money to this charity fund, to that trust....` You feel a little happier. The world has lived in poverty, the world has lived in scarcity, ninety-nine percent of people have lived a poor life, almost starving and dying, and only one percent of people have lived with richness, with money - they have always felt guilty. To help them, the religions developed the idea of charity. It is to rid them of their guilt.”

People World Giving Feels Littles Ideas Helping Felt Poor Poverty Dying College Percent Guilt Charity Nine Guilty Fund Hospitals Ninety Starving Richness Scarcity Ninety Nine Poor Life

Author:Rajneesh

“Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful, provide more money, and eventually strike at the system-causes of poverty. Government believes that poverty is just a lack of money. We felt, and continue to feel, that poverty is actually a lack of skill, and a lack of the self-esteem that comes with being able to take some part of one's life into one's own hands and work with others towards shared-call them social-goals.”

“I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.”

Said Christian Felt Poverty Issues Environment Perspective Needed Republican Disease Hunger Addresses Touched Homelessness Hunger Poverty

Author:Mike Huckabee

“A hungry mind is not free, and I felt if we were really going to make a difference and fight poverty we should at least start with the ability to feed ourselves, and the millions of Africans who don't have it.”

Ifs Should Mind Fighting Felt Differences Ability Poverty Millions Hungry Making A Difference

Author:Kofi Annan

“All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.”

Thinking Believe Made Dream Pain Beautiful Used Felt Silence Poverty Guilt Simplicity Generous Nightmare Sense Of Humor Waking Ugliness Eloquent Awkwardness

Book:The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.”

Turns Felt Wealth Poverty Riches Recalls Inability

Author:Daniel Gilbert