The destruction of the poor is their poverty. – Bible

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. – Proverb

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

The poor will always be with you. John 12: 8 – Bible