The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned... Knut Hamsun
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
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Criss Jami
Life… For some it is battle for others its dance... For rich it is party for poor it is chance!
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Nino Varsimashvili
Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by...
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Aleister Crowley
I may be very poor, but I'm rich in so many other ways.
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Knut Hamsun
It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.
The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word.. that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.. One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give...
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness .. a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic...
