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«Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.»
«The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar»
«The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Appearance | Keywords: beggar, obliged
«Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.»
«Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity»
Author: Walter Raleigh, Sr. | Keywords: beggar, witty
«There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: / And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, / And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.»
«The beggar wears all colors fearing none.»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: beggar, fearing
«Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil»
«Stiff-necked Glasgow beggar! I've heard he's prayed for my soul, / But he couldn't lie if you paid him, and he'd starve before he stole.»
«Take pity on me, O my Lord, Merciful to the meek. I am a beggar, begging for the dust of the feet of the Holy. Servant Nanak begs for this gift, let me meditate on the Lord, forever and ever.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: beggar