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  • Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

    Pride   Want   Loud  
    Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.100
  • This is one beggar who has found bread telling others where to find it.

  • Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

    Of a quarrel within a village. Opera et dies, 25 (translated by M L West, 1988).
  • Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

    Lying   Poverty   Etc  
  • The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

    Fear   Color   Beggar  
  • The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

    Interview with C. L. Sulzberger, November 7, 1964.
  • It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.

    Home   Men   Doors  
  • Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.

    Mind   Holiness   Speech  
    Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.25, Multnomah
  • When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government

    Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.649, Library of America
  • In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

    "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).
  • Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it.

    Feelings   Kind   Lord  
  • Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

    Horse   Beggar   Beggary  
    Robert Greene (1883). “The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene ...”
  • Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.267, Wordsworth Editions
  • Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.90
  • The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

    Men   Hands   Order  
    "Commemorating The 70th Anniversary Of Liberation", www.ushmm.org.
  • If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are. You are gods who have forgotten who they are. You are emperors who have fallen asleep and are dreaming that they have become beggars. Now beggars are trying to become emperors, in dreams they are making great efforts to become emperors, and all that is needed is to wake up!" Osho

    Dream   Effort   Trying  
  • I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

    Jewels   Gold   Pay  
    Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
  • A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.

    Prayer   Fall   Heart  
  • A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press
  • We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.

    Children   Cat   Reality  
    "The Ordinary Decency Of The Heart". Interview with Andrew Lawler, www.thesunmagazine.org. May 2008.
  • BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged”, p.29, Courier Corporation
  • If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

    Horse   Men   Justice  
  • The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.

    Robert Greene, “Farewell To Folly”
  • You can't make cheese from rats. ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

    Littles   Rats   Cheese  
    "Long Joan Silver". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, July 10, 2013.
  • He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

    Men   Giving   Use  
  • Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.

    Beautiful   India   Meals  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1571, Manonmani Publishers
  • Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.51, Lulu Press, Inc
  • The first miracle after the baptism of the Holy Ghost was wroughtly upon a beggar. It means that the first service of a Holy Ghost-baptized church is to the poor; that its ministry is to those who are lowest down; that its gifts are for those who need them the most. As the Spirit was upon Jesus to preach the gospel to the poor, so His Spirit is upon His servants for the same purpose.

  • The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

  • A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

    Children   Coins   Cosmic  
    "Essays og epistler". Book by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1967.
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