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Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast--your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

Patiently bear the burden of poverty.

The beggarly last doit.

And plenty makes us poor.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Living from hand to mouth.

One must be poor to know the luxury of living.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.