Beggar Quotes - Page 10

• I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think he offended people because his message was to love your neighbour as yourself; in other words, no one is better than somebody else. He embraced all people, whether it was a beggar on the street or a prostitute, and he admonished a group of Jews who were not observing the precepts of the Torah. So he rattled a lot of people's cages.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Believe, Love You

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• When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide. We calculate their value to us. When we approach relationships in this manner, we are coming as beggars, seeing the other as a source of supply. When we can enter a relationship with our treasure house already open, there is no end to the wonders we can find, both within and between ourselves and another.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Relationship, House, Treasure

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

  Juvenal

  Traveller

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• Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

  Charles Lamb

  Rags, Dresses, Poverty

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.127

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• I would that I were an old beggar
  Rolling a blind pearl eye,
  For he cannot see my lady
  Go gallivanting by.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Rolling, Pearls

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

  Agnes Repplier

  Charity, Favors, Begging

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• Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Girl, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Unhappiness, Accountants

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• Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Distance, Noble, Neighbor

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.237, Macmillan

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• Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Gold, Mutiny

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.760, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Heart, Different

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1594, Delphi Classics

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• Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.

  Rosario Ferre

  Death, Mother, Kings

  Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

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• Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

  James Shikwati

  Firsts, Steps, Modernity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wise, Blood, Silence

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• From the king
  To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants;
  And you must grant, the slavery is less
  To study to please one, than many.

  Philip Massinger

  Kings, Slavery, Study

  Philip Massinger (1830). “The plays of Philip Massinger”, p.259

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• To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Acting, Marrow

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• If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

  John Ray

  Horse, Wish, Might

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• Without hope of reward
  Provide help to others.
  Bear suffering alone,
  And share your pleasures with beggars.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Suffering, Rewards, Bears

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• I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason-but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Sake, Helping

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.238

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• We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  One Day, Needs, Helping

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

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• Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mean, Shepherds, Wealth

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1855). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated : First and Second Series, Complete in One Volume”, p.16

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• In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

  Donald Miller

  Humility, Men, Charity

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Christ, Turns

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.5564, Harper Collins

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• So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Fall, Eye

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

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• You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.

  C. S. Lewis

  Earth, Bows, Narnia

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.157, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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