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156 quotesA miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Money
William Shakespeare
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How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Patience
William Shakespeare
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
Poverty and The Poor
William Shakespeare
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Gifts
William Shakespeare
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
Corruption
William Shakespeare
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
Gambling
George Bernard Shaw
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
Riches
George Bernard Shaw
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Memory
Alexander Smith
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A poor man is all schemes.
Poverty and The Poor
Spanish Proverb
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Mind
Edmund Spenser
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Suffering
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.
Enthusiasm
James Stalker
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
Spring
Wallace Stevens
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We are rich only through what we give; and poor only through we refuse and keep.
Giving
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
Nations
Jonathan Swift
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The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Abstinence
Sir William Temple
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
Hope
Thales of Miletus
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Farming and Farmers
Henry David Thoreau
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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
Poverty and The Poor
Mike Todd
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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
Love
Thomas Traherne
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I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
Money
Sophie Tucker
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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
Parents and Parenting
Mark Twain
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Live poor so you can die rich.
Life and Living
Source Unknown
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
Riches
Raoul Vaneigem
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The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
Taxes and Taxation
Bill Vaughan
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun