William Shakespeare Quotes About Poverty
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GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
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And makes me poor indeed.
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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live
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Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor
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Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.
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I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary
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