Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or performance:
“And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“What avails it that you are a Christian, if you are not purer than the heathen, if you deny yourself no more, if you are not more religious? I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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