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But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I found comedy.
Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.
There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.
Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.
The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.
I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.
Our dreams are our precious diamonds; without them, we are endlessly poor. Let us perpetually dream to be overly wealthy!
In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.
Hope is the anchor of our souls. I know of no one who is not in need of hope - young or old, strong or weak, rich or poor.
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.
What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.
In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.
At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.
The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.
Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.
Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.
The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.
You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.
I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'