Quotations

«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.»

«Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.»

«I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.»

«All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.»

«There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer /committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.»

«A blade of grass is light, cotton is lighter, the beggar is infinitely lighter still. Why then does not the wind carry him away? Because it fears that he may ask alms of him.»

«Fate makes a beggar a king and a king a beggar. He makes a rich man poor and a poor man rich.»

«Beggared by fools! whom still he found too late, He had his jest, but they had his estate»

«If wishes were horses beggars would ride»

«Beggars can't be choosers»