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Updated: June 24, 2025
Don't waste time extolling the blessings of poverty use your energies to diminish poverty's curse, and to improve humanity by giving it the full efficiency which freedom from worry alone can give. The very old and very foolish saying, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing," is disproved every day. The teaching was elementary, including reading, writing, ciphering, and very little of each one.
Haggard faces and shabby clothes spoke eloquently of poverty's pinch. A long summer ahead and nothing saved. Well what of it? That was nothing unusual. If times were hard and engagements few, that was the price the mummer must pay. Why did he go into the rotten business?
We see this result every day in South Carolina; we hear the comments in the broadways and public places, while the attorney and bailiff's offices and notices tell the sad tale of poverty's wasting struggle. George, in passing from the wharf into the bay, met the Captain, who was shaping his course for the brig. He immediately ran up to him, and shook his hands with an appearance of friendship.
There stood in the door a faded woman, one of the numerous sisterhood of the unhappy. She was dressed all in black poverty's perpetual mourning for lost joys. Her face had the contours of twenty and the lines of forty. She may have lived that intervening score of years in a twelve-month.
"I wish him joy of the fidelity of the picture he has painted," thought I. "What will he say when, instead of a pair of plump turtle doves, billing and cooing in a bower of roses, he finds a single lean cormorant, standing mateless and shelterless on poverty's bleak cliff? Oh, confound him! Let him come, and let him laugh at the contrast between rumour and fact.
For oh! ye may call riches temptation, but poverty's punishment; and I heard a young curate say that from the pulpit, and he was lean enough to know, poor fella!" Both Cornelia and Arabella breathed more freely when they had heard Mrs. Chump's tale to an end. They knew perfectly well that she was blameless for the defection of Mr.
Like a flash Lydia saw again long aisles of pines, smelled again the odor of the needles, heard again the murmuring call of the wind. "Good God!" cried Amos, tossing his pipe on the table, "poverty's hounded me all my life poverty and death. The only two people who cared about me, Patience and Levine're gone. Yet here's the chance for me to be independent.
So, though it was not a Methodist church that they attended, the Allens were put on longer probation by all classes, when if they had appeared in a simple unassuming manner, rating themselves at their true worth and position, many would have been inclined to take them by the hand. One morning, a month after the Allens had gone into poverty's exile, Gus Elliot lounged into Mr.
I love her more truly, more purely than I thought myself capable of loving; yet I can only approach her as the tool of George Sheldon, a rapacious conspirator, bent on securing the hoarded thousands of old John Haygarth. Of all men upon this earth I should be the last to underrate the advantages of wealth, I who have been reared in the gutter, which is Poverty's cradle.
The passionate, revengeful yearning of a man who has been cruelly injured and betrayed, the common greed of wealth engendered out of poverty's slow torture, had arisen rampant in this man's breast at the sight of Henry Dunbar.
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