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Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.


Matsime Simon Mohapi


#debts #depths-of-poverty #indecent-life #food

This Path to God Made me such an old sweet beggar. I was starving until one night My love tricked God Himself To fall into my bowl. Now Hafiz is infintely rich, But all I ever want to do Is keep emptying out My emerald-filled Pockets Upon This tear-stained World.


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#love

As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand. Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops." "Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said. "Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta.


Jeffrey Eugenides


#calcutta #charity #jesus #poor #poverty

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.


Ben Hecht


#beggar #both #envy #guilt #his

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.


Don Herold


#beggar #obliged #only #person #study

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.


Chris Hughes


#challenging #down #group #had #i

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


Antonin Artaud


#chatter #incomprehensible #language #like #teeth

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.


Margaret Cavendish


#beggar #did #door #ever #i

And love is love in beggars and in kings.


Edward Dyer


#kings #love #love is

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.


Elizabeth I


#i #married #queen #rather #single






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