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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. (De Leon Daniel)
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. (De Leon Daniel)
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. (De Leon Daniel)
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? (De Leon Daniel)
I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty. (De Leon Daniel)
Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. (De Leon Daniel)
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? (De Leon Daniel)
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency? (De Leon Daniel)
He who knows how to be poor knows everything. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable. (De Leon Daniel)
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor. (De Leon Daniel)
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. (De Leon Daniel)
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. (De Leon Daniel)
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. (De Leon Daniel)
When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. (De Leon Daniel)
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. (De Leon Daniel)
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth. (De Leon Daniel)
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