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Poor Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away…
- We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies…
- 'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping…
- I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those…
- If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his…
- If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his…
- Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.
- The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.
- We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
- The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
- If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of…
- Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
- Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
- I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to…
- In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they…
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- Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be… — Swami Vivekananda
- Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine