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Beggar Quote by Hesiod

“Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.” quote by Hesiod — Download Open image

“Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.”

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Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

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Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

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The potter is at enmity with the potter.

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But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

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Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

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If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than…

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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our…

Eduardo Galeano

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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars…

George Bernard Shaw

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You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend…

Robert A. Heinlein

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Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

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Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative…

Walter Benjamin

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I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but…

William Shakespeare

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A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet…

James Russell Lowell

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The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

William Cranch Bond

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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

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