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A sense of personal degradation underlay their opposition to poverty among members. There is record of an order of the Meeting, in 1775, for the purchase of a cow "to loan to Joseph ." The practice thus early observed has since then been unbroken. The member of the community who comes to want is at this day taken care of by popular subscription.
To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles. He sat there with his thoughts for a while, Law on the one hand, and Poverty on the other, beholding a radiant vision of a woman rise above the dull, smouldering fire.
Two vices are growing among us to dread proportions indifference and hatred: the one will let poverty anguish at its door, the other will hound on the vassal against his lord.
She was as fond of her father as adverse circumstances had allowed her to be; she adored her half-brother, and was not unkindly disposed towards her step-mother. But to go back to them penniless, threadbare, disgraced go back to be a burden upon their genteel poverty. That was bitter.
"There is so much to learn, and I know so little," he thought. But he did not brood over the poverty which prevented him from gratifying his desire. He knew it would do no good, and he also reflected that knowledge may be acquired in a printing office as well as within the walls of an academy or college.
Eangyth writes to him of her troubles as abbess of a double monastery, of the quarrels among the monks, the poverty of the house, and the excessive dues which had to be paid to the king and his officials.
"Hard?... There's nothing else like it on earth for hardness." V.V. stood grasping the back of an ancient walnut chair. It was seen that he belonged in this room, simple home of poverty; different from the girl, who was so obviously the rich exotic, the transient angel in the house. He added: "But it's always seemed to me worth all the price of trying." "Oh, it is I'm sure.
It was a delicious moment for them both, one of those roses of love and tenderness that grow beside the desert paths of the bitterest poverty, nay, at times in yet darker depths.
It is this dislocation even antagonism of social interests and relations, combined with the irresponsibility of the property for its poverty, that constitutes the 'circus viciosus, the source of all the evils of this unfortunate and interesting country.
Put your pride in your pockets, and remember poverty is n't disgraceful, but dishonesty is." Polly had always loved kind Mr. Shaw, but now she respected him heartily, and felt that she had not done him justice when she sometimes thought that he only cared for making money. "I should n't wonder if this was a good thing for the whole family, though it don't look so. Mrs.
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