John Dryden Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• And plenty makes us poor.

  John Dryden

  Poverty, Poor, Plenty

  John Dryden (1972). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684”, p.47, Univ of California Press

• If we from wealth to poverty descend,
  Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

  John Dryden

  Giving, Want, Poverty

  John Dryden (1822). “Fables, from Boccaccio and Chaucer”, p.259

• Want is a bitter and a hateful good,
  Because its virtues are not understood;
  Yet many things, impossible to thought,
  Have been by need to full perfection brought.
  The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
  Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
  Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives;
  And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

  John Dryden

  Taken, Giving, Perfection

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

• Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Rags, Arms

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.189

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