It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.