"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."

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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."

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"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."

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"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."

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"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."

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"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."

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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."

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"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"

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"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."

"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."

"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."

"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."

"All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings."

"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"