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• Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

  Edward Young

  Nature, Fancy, Rich

  Edward Young (1839). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.109

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• In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.

  John Adams

  Struggle, Law, Influence

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.158, Hackett Publishing

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• We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

  Alexandra Paul

  Country, Children, Rich Countries

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• No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Thinking, Desire

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.359

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• I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the…Medicaid bill.

  Henry Hyde

  Class, Abortion, Bills

  "40 Years After Roe v. Wade, We Still Fall Short of Reproductive Justice" by Terry O'Neill, www.usnews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.

  Charles Rolls

  Poor Quality, Long, Forgotten

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• Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

  Nigel Short

  Sports, Exhibitions, Simultaneous

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• On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

  Thomas Campbell

  Happiness, Dog, Play

  'The Harper' (1799)

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• Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Found You

  William Law (2012). “The Power of the Spirit”, p.17, CLC Publications

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• They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

  Bob Marley

  Stars, Recognition, Praise

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• If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

  Seth

  Finding Yourself, Poverty, Abundance

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• If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that a free country!

  John Adams

  Country, Sacrifice, Offering

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• In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ's hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side, whence came the blood that cleanses you from sin and hiding your nakedness under the skirt of the white shining robe of his righteousness.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Children, Eye, Blood

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830). “treatise concerning religious affections. Justification by faith alone. Pressing into the kingdom of God. Ruth's resolution. Justice of God in the damnation of sinners. The excellency of Jesus Christ”, p.152

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• I'd rather be smart and poor than rich and dumb.

  Ted Turner

  Smart, Dumb, Rich

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• Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which he pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.

  William Ellery Channing

  Art, Light, Sky

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.4

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• Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

  John Webster

  Husband, Maids, Poverty

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• The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

  Francis Bacon

  Judging, Honor, Succeed

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• I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

  Andre Dubus

  College, Men, Wings

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• I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

  John Bright

  House, Facts, Should

  John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

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• ...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.

  Henry Taylor

  Strong, Blood, Law

  Sir Henry Taylor (1835). “Philip van Artevelde: a dramatic romance, in two parts”, p.36

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• It is a sin to be poor.

  Charles Fillmore

  Poverty, Sin

  Charles Fillmore (2012). “Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

  Susan George

  Erosion, Class, Gaps

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• Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

  Al Lewis

  Sleep, Bridges, Oscars

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• There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

  Mike McCurry

  Party, Struggle, Class

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• The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

  Richard Rogers

  Unions, Gaps, Rich

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