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Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed:
(Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British writer. Poverty in London (l. 177). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse. Sir Arthur Quille, ed. (1948) Oxford University Press.)
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With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.
(Robert Pollok (1798-1827), Scottish poet. The Course of Time, bk. 8.)
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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
(Juvenal (c. 60-c. 130), Roman satiric poet. Satires, no. 3, l.182.)
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To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
To bear with fools is mightiest might.
(Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XVI.3 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
(Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, Yale Edition, vol. 6, eds. E.L. McAdam, Jr. and G. Milne (1964). London, l. 176-7 (1738).)
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
(Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXXIV, 4.)
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Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "The Ponds," Walden (1854).)
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 361, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty—the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
(J.P. (James Patrick) Donleavy (b. 1926), U.S. author. The Ginger Man, ch. 2 (1955).)
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