A Beggar Can Be Happy but Not a Miser

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"If wishes were horses, my mortal father used to say, beggars would ride."
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

"They are but beggars that can count their worth."
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar?
Sometimes I think that I am. The beggar knows much that the king can only guess. And yet who draws up the codes for begging ordinances? Often I wonder what my experience in life--my easy life following the Desolation, and my current level of comfort--has given me of any true experience to use in making laws. If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and the cushioning of thrones."
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

"A borrower who doesn't returns is a beggar."
― Amit Kalantri

"I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind."
― Michael Bassey Johnson

"After applying to hundreds of scholarships I finally felt that we are also beggars, no different than others, we are not on the street, uneducated, but we are sitting in front of computers with years of hardworking and repeatedly begging each and everyone to sponsor and support our education, not because we deserve, but we cannot afford."
― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

"People will rather pass by the weak, the lame, the beggars, the orphans, the tormented, the widows and take their large offerings to church, to the man of God who already has a mansion and jets , what a shallow mindedness."
― Sunday Adelaja, Create Your Own Net Worth

"As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!"
Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand.
Mike said, "I used to give to beggars when I first came here. But then I realized, it's hopeless. It never stops."
"Jesus said you should give to whoever asks you," Mitchell said.
"Yeah, well," Mike said, "obviously Jesus was never in Calcutta."
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

"...and when the Assembly arrived at Dusk I hasten'd into the Streets and made my self a child of Hazard. There was a Band of little Vagabonds who met by moon-light in the Moorfields, and for a time I wandred with them; most of them had been left as Orphans in the Plague and, out of the sight of Constable or Watch, would call out to Passers-by Lord Bless you give us a Penny or Bestow a half penny on us: I still hear their Voices in my Head when I walk abroad in a Croud, and some times I am seiz'd with Trembling to think I may be still one of them."
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

"Capability can handle challenges, it doesn't accept charity."
― Amit Kalantri

"No one in this world can starve n die.. One who does, had died much before then... Never give money to beggars and specially children on street... By giving them money, Either u would be killing them or helping them in dieing (indirectly)..."
― honeya

"Beggars do not work, it is said; but, then, what is WORK? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course--but, then, many reputable trades are quite useless."
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

"We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars."
― M.F. Moonzajer

"Destiny helpers often appear disguised as dreadful beggars. May God give you wisdom to discern and honor them."
― Paul Bamikole

"He went among vendors and beggars and wild street preachers haranguing a lost world with vigor unknown to the sane. Suttree admired them with their hot eyes and dogeared bibles, God's barkers gone forth into the world like the prophets of old."
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"
Saskatchewan Farmer Saying."
― Hertha Tucker

"Those who despise this demand of life end up becoming beggars and slaves through life."
― Sunday Adelaja

"We must not be beggars, why should we beg? We have something to offer."
― Arefin Bashar Arif

"We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy our hope. Nothing in the way of the blackness. It sinks to the bottom as the lead weight that is despair. We look forward such a short distance that our spirit is myopic, not to be corrected by any lens within our world."
― Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants

"Not everyone who comes to your doorstep with a bowl is a beggar. Some of them are actually winged creatures in disguise."
― Paul Bamikole

"Giving alms to the rich is a luxury no beggar can afford."
― Marty Rubin

"We are beggars not choosers at love's feast."
― Marty Rubin

"Backpackers can pack much more meows than baggers. Beggars never feed stray cats as street cats are self-sustaining."
― Will Advise

"Some of us have met our guardian Angels and treated them like beggars because they showed up with beggars bowl."
― Paul Bamikole

"A beggar can be happy, but not a miser."
― Marty Rubin

"Don't beg for money from a beggar and don't beg for love from a rich"
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"The corrupt government's attitude towards the disabled is to turn them into homeless street beggars."
― Steven Magee

"Beggars can become choosers if you continue to please them..."
― Ankala Subbarao

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A Beggar Can Be Happy but Not a Miser

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