To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
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.
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 a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.