Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
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.
All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Money can't buy poverty.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.