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Poverty Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain…
- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they…
- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
- Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm…
- Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
- All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from…
- Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
- This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd
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- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson
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