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• Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Annoying, Should

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• Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Eating Alone, He Man

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.15, Verso

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• I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

  Nicole Kidman

  Want

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• For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

  William Gurnall

  Kings, Cottages, Advent

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.112

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• We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Perfection, Silence

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• Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

  Thomas Otway

  Graves

  Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.266

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• There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Diversity, People

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Comets, Halley's Comet

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

  Edward Dyer

  Kings, Love Is, And Love

  Sir Edward Dyer, “The Lowest Trees Have Tops”

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• Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

  Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

  Religion, Bread, Evangelism

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• As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

  Oscar Wilde

  Poverty, Poor, Begging

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1043, Wordsworth Editions

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• Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Giving, Thrones

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3666, Manonmani Publishers

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• You are the honoured guest,
  Do not weep like a beggar
  For pieces of the world.

  Rumi

  World, Guests, Pieces

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• The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

  Horace

  Earth, Graves, Bosoms

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• If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

  Joanne Harris

  Horse, Wish, Positive Results

  Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

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• The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

  Charles Lamb

  Fear, Color

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• We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Agony, Giving, Society

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• We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.

  Andrew Harvey

  Children, Cat, Reality

  "The Ordinary Decency Of The Heart". Interview with Andrew Lawler, www.thesunmagazine.org. May 2008.

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• He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Refusal, Court, Beggary

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 64-65, Hippolytus, II. 593, 1922.

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• Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Existence, Begging

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• The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Kings, Real, Beggary

  "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, II. 9, 1779.

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• All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

  Antonin Artaud

  Communication, Teeth, Language

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.549, Univ of California Press

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• He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

  Stijn Streuvels

  Moving, Home, Steps

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.34, 1st World Publishing

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• Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Sparks, Christ

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Kings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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