Beggar Quotes
235 Beggar quotes by 166 unique authors
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With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the…
— Fidel Castro
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The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it…
— Ellen Key
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The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar,…
— Philip Neri
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Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
— Brennan Manning
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I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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"Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us…
— Pope Francis
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If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
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Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly…
— Peter Mullan
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Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of…
— R. Scott Bakker
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
— William Gurnall
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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of…
— William Shakespeare
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All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
— Homer
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went…
— E. M. Forster
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Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
— Friedrich Schiller
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If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no…
— Bernard Baruch
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Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who…
— James Russell Lowell
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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
— Oscar Wilde
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Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor.
— Rajneesh
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Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering…
— Rajneesh
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