QUOTES ABOUT POVERTY IN A CHRISTMAS CAROL

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.

“I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.”

“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you.”

“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.”

“There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.”

“They are Man’s and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”

“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”

“He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew.”

“It may be that in the sight of heaven you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.” SUN TZU FRIENDSHIP QUOTES

“I see a vacant seat in the poor chimney-corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.”

“It is when his heart and mind are humbled that a man feels most inclined to pray.”

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!”

“I wish I had him here. I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he’d have a good appetite for it.”

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business.”

“I don’t make myself merry at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned—they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.”

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.”

“A small matter to make these silly folks so full of gratitude.”

“I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

“The darkness and ignorance that surrounds poverty is the real chain that binds mankind, restricting growth and compassion.”