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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau

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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine

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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window. – Proverb

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