Poor Man Quotes
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“A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.”
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“When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.”
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“A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man; a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!”
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“They seemed to think that the greatness of their masters was transferable to themselves. It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!”
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime.”
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“Street music is always good even it is bad, because actually there is only one melody over there: The melody of life struggle of a poor man!”
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“There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.”
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“An honest, poor, but otherwise unremarkable man and his loving, tender-hearted wife, though long forgotten and lost to history, may have been the ancestors who are most worthy of our admiration today.”
― Digging for Ancestral Gold: The Fun and Easy Way to Get Started on Your Genealogy Quest
― Digging for Ancestral Gold: The Fun and Easy Way to Get Started on Your Genealogy Quest
“You’ll concur that it is in sour taste for the poor to pour his meager funds into an endeavor on the spur of the moment. He should tour the proposal to the core so as to be sure a pore does not bore in his expectation.”
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“The poor make the rich, rich. For without the poor, the rich are also poor.”
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine. I not only think about food all day, but I dream about it at night.
But I don’t ask to go back to America, to be put in a double harness again, to work the treadmill. No, I prefer to be a poor man of Europe. God knows, I am poor enough; it only remains to be a man.”
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But I don’t ask to go back to America, to be put in a double harness again, to work the treadmill. No, I prefer to be a poor man of Europe. God knows, I am poor enough; it only remains to be a man.”
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“Wisdom and riches are not always synonymous. There are instances of 'rich but foolish' and 'poor but wise'. Solomon's riches did not result from his wisdom; he was blessed riches also. The wisest of all men was poor. He was poor enough to obtain a coin from someone in his audience (without ridicule) to postulate the famous quote, "give Caesar's things to Caesar ..." Next time you ridicule a poor man's suggestion as bereft of wisdom, think twice. What he may be bereft of is the opportunity or sterner stuff it requires to convert it to cash.”
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