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Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed:
(Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British writer. Poverty in London (l. 177). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse. Sir Arthur Quille, ed. (1948) Oxford University Press.)
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
(Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by Lorenzo O'Rourke. "Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907).)
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
(Anzia Yezierska (c. 1881-1970), Polish author. Red Ribbon on a White Horse, ch. 9 (1950).
Of Poland, in letter from Boruch Shlomoe Mayer to Anzia Yezierska.)
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With one hand he put
A penny in the urn of poverty,
And with the other took a shilling out.
(Robert Pollok (1798-1827), Scottish poet. The Course of Time, bk. 8.)
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Natives of poverty, children of malheur,
The gaiety of language is our seigneur.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Esthιtique du Mal.")
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The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Esthιtique du Mal.")
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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
(Juvenal (c. 60-c. 130), Roman satiric poet. Satires, no. 3, l.182.)
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 361, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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