POVERTY POVERTY
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,
Would that its tone could reach the Rich,
She sang this "Song of the Shirt!"
Magnas inter opes mops.
Penniless amid great plenty.
Horace—Carmina. Bk. III. 16. 28.
Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.
He is not poor who has the use of necessary
things.
Horace—Epistles. I. 12. 4.
Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.
The man who has lost his purse will go
wherever you wish.
Horace—Epistles. II. 2. 40.
Grind the faces of the poor.
Isaiah. III. 15.
The poor always ye have with you.
John. XII. 8.
All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,—poverty.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = BosweWs Life of Johnson.
(1777)
| topic = Poverty
| page = 621
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| text = <poem>Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se
Quam quod ridicules homines facit.
Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than
this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule.
Juvenal—Satires. III. V. 152.
Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.
They do not easily rise whose abilities are
repressed by poverty at home.
Juvenal—Satires, in. 164.
Hie vivimus ambitiosa
Paupertate omnes.
Here we all live in ambitious poverty.
Juvenal—Satires. III. 182.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined
Sink not so deep into the generous mind,
As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
Juvenal—Satires. III. L. 226. Gdtord's trans.
Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.
The traveler without money will sing before
the robber.
Juvenal—Satires. X. 22.
Paupertas fugitur, totoque arcessitur orbe.
Poverty is shunned and persecuted all over
tbe globe.
Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 166.
If you are poor now, iEinilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none
but the rich.
Martial—Epigrams. Bk. V. Ep. 8.
Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.
To have nothing is not poverty.
Martial—Epigrams. XI. 32. 8.
La pauvrete des biens est aysee a guerir; la
pauvrete de Fame, impossible.
The lack of wealth is easily repaired; but
the poverty of the soul is irreparable.
Montaigne—Essays. III. 10.
Rattle his bones over the stones!
He's only a pauper whom nobody owns!
Thomas Noel—The Pauper's Drime.
Horrea formica tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
Ants do not bend their ways to empty
barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
Ovn>—Tristium. I. 9. 9.
Inops, potentem dum vult imitari. perit.
The poor, trying to imitate the powerful, perish.
Piledrus—Fables. I. 24. 1.
Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the
arts.
Plautus—Stichus. Act II. 1.
But to the world no bugbear is so great,
As want of figure and a small estate.
| author = Pope
| work = First Book of Horace. Ep. I. L. 67.
Where are those troops of poor, that throng'd of
yore
The good old landlord's hospitable door?
| author = Pope
| work = Satires of Dr. Donne. Satirell. L. 113.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Proverbs. VI. 11.
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Proverbs. X. 15.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto
the Lord.
Proverbs. XIX. 17.
Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
"" • s. XLI. 1.
Whene'er I walk the public ways,
How many poor that lack ablution
Do probe my heart with pensive gaze,
And beg a trivial contribution.
Owen Seaman—Bitter Cry of the Great Unpaid.
| seealso = (See also Watts)
| topic = Poverty
| page = 621
}}
{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit,
pauper est.
Not he who has little, but he who wishes for
more, is poor.
Seneca—Epistola; Ad Lucilium. II.
Nemo tarn pauper vivit quam natus est.
No one lives so poor as he is born.
Seneca—Quare bonis viris.
