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“So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.”

Thinking Men Love Perfect Poverty Grace He Man Broken Holy Ears Harvest Crops Reap

Book:As You Like it

Source: As You Like it

“Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.”

Lying Suffering Poor Poverty Grace Aim Credit Riches Assistance Convenience Inconvenience Alms

Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.”

Ifs Difficult Poverty Grace Praying Obedience Chastity

Book:The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner

Source: The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner

“It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.”

“Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.”

Men World May Philosophy Turns Poverty Grace Proud Misery Contempt Consolation Pardon Sullen Sturdy

Author:Richard Cecil

“Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.”

Ifs Needs Years Kind Use Pay Poverty Grace Crime Depends Industry Percent Destruction Seeds Treated Corporations Farmers Entity Yards Fence Royalty Ecological Dependency Pests Pest Control

Author:Vandana Shiva