What are riches – grandeur – health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; – and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair – to the anguish of an afflicted one!
Ann Radcliffe
Tag: Poverty
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Horace (B.C. 65-8)
As you simplify your life the laws of…
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
―Henry David Thoreau