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• O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

  Hosea Ballou

  Character, Oil, Promise

  Hosea Ballou (1848). “A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness”, p.57

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• War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Strong, War, Teaching

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.15, University of Toronto Press

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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Cake, Comfort, Caviar

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

  Margaret Deland

  Law, Poor Eyesight, Ought

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

  Amy Tan

  Family, Mother, Brother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• Since, by your greatness, you
  Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
  In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
  As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
  The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Greatness, Men, Clouds

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• Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
  Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
  Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
  The roughest waves of human destiny
  Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
  Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Cheer, Blessing, Destiny

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.461

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• Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

  James Baker

  Military, Thinking, Sight

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• Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

  Anzia Yezierska

  People, Poverty, Rich

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

  Luise Rainer

  Half, World, Imitation

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• This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls. 

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Soul, This Society, Relief Society

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• Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Becoming, Roles

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Charity, Pay, Patient

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• I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.

  Joan of Arc

  Girl, Voice, Riding

  Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”

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• Far rather would I sit and sew beside my poor mother, for this thing is not of my condition. But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

  Joan of Arc

  Mother, Tomorrow, Lord

  Saint Joan (of Arc) (1961). “Joan of Arc: Self Portrait”

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• If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Responsibility, Men, Class

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• Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Firsts, Causes, Riches

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• The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

  Helen Bevington

  Slavery, Guilty, Cigarette

  Helen Smith Bevington (1971). “The house was quiet and the world was calm”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.

  Gertrude Lawrence

  Successful, Hopeful, Earth

  Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”

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• To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Stupid, Men, Giving

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• In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.

  Johan Cruijff

  Player, Space, Acting

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• Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.

  Ann Landers

  Health, People, Giving

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• ... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

  Margaret Deland

  Fall, Iron, Dust

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.310, Wildside Press LLC

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• There's no future in being poor.

  Robert Shaw

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• I dont have a trainer. I have what I call the poor mans workout and the rich mans diet. I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if its 3 in the morning.

  T. J. Thyne

  Running, Morning, Workout

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