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“No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.”

Desire Poverty Honest Conscience Praise Prosperity Corners Riches Virtuous Inaction

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.”

Ifs Lasts Given My Own Poverty Virtue Honest Praise Wings Fortune Shakes Refuge

Author:Horace

“people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.”

“Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.”

Men Care Pain Lying Lost Wealth Grief Poverty Honest Riches Good Man Inconvenience

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.”

Ifs Should War Black Growth Loses Poverty Economic Honest Vote Democrat Discussion Welfare Economic Growth Private Sector War On Poverty

Author:Alveda King

“Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.”

People Want Passion Causes Poverty Greater Honest Crime Endure Hardship Elsewhere Thieves Distress Fortitude Misers Honest People Crimes Of Passion

Book:The Portable William Blake

Source: The Portable William Blake

“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.”

Men Way Inspiration Truth Poor Poverty Honest Honesty Honest Man Poor Man

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me”

Writing Left Money Poverty Honest Taste Labor Epic Recourse Gonzo Journalism

Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967