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• It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Opportunity, Too Much

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

  Indira Gandhi

  Peace, Rich Or Poor, People

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “Indira Gandhi, speeches and writings”

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• A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

  Epictetus

  Sweet, Soul, Virtue

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• I ask and wish not to appear
  More beauteous, rich or gay:
  Lord, make me wiser every year,
  And better every day.

  Charles Lamb

  Prayer, Gay, Years

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.456, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Nice, People

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• The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
  And rich and poor around it wait;
  O Shepherdess of England's fold,
  Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

  William Blake

  Waiting, Heaven, Gold

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.134, Psychology Press

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• If I should die, think only this of me:
  That there's some corner of a foreign field
  That is forever England. There shall be
  In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
  Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
  A body of England's, breathing English air,
  Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Book, Home

  'The Soldier' (1914)

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• I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Done, Distribution Of Wealth

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• A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

  William Shenstone

  Enemy, Dresses, Add

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.109

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• An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.

  John Dryden

  Jewels, Ugly, Habit

  John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations”, p.341

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• After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mean, Exercise, Men

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• The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

  Bill Vaughan

  Healing, Health, Simple

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• A snow yeare, a rich yeare.

  George Herbert

  Snow

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.320

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• Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

  George Herbert

  Weary, Seeking

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.312

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• The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

  William Cowper

  Thinking, Bears, Poor

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• Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail
  To find some reason why the poor deserve
  Their miseries.

  Robert Southey

  Poverty, Reason Why, Misery

  Robert Southey (1854). “Ballads, metrical tales and other poems”, p.141

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• Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd,
  And still where many a garden flower grows wild,
  There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,
  The village preacher's modest mansion rose.
  A man he was to all the country dear,
  And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
  Remote from town's he ran his godly race,
  Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place;
  Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power,
  By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour;
  Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize.
  More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Fashion, Flower

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.69

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• Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Giving, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.159

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• The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Land, People

  Grover Cleveland's Fourth Annual Message (December 1888), published in "The writings and speeches of Grover Cleveland" edited by George Frederick Parker, circa 1892.

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• To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

  Agatha Christie

  Poor, Enchanting, Know How

  Agatha Christie (1968). “Endless night”

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• Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
  When young and old, and strong and weak,
  Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
  Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,--
  In thy place--ah! well-a-day!
  We find the thing we fled--To-day!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Art, Strong

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.477

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• Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

  John Selden

  Glasses, Water, Pennies

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• Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

  Izaak Walton

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225

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• What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Greed, Rising

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.156

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• We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Envy, Joy

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