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Letter "P" » poor
«Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.»
«I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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«Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.»
«No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.»
Author: General George S. Patton
(General)
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«I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
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«I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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«Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
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«Poverty consist in feeling poor.»
«It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.»
«I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.»
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