#poor

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

— William Shakespeare

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I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#enough #fortunate #i #poor

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness. ↗

— Tony Snow

#food #help #kindness #near #now

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#been #being #having #poor #shame

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#been #ceos #children #coming #desperately

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#among #amounted #call #father #had

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#black and white #city #congregation #every #great

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#anybody #depression #different #else #everybody

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#drowned #generally #get #language #lyric

Even a poor man can receive honors. ↗

— Sophocles

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