A poor person is often worthy.

Poor is the church without music

It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it

The poor lack much, but the greedy more

Poor in my youth, and in life's later scenes - Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enjoyed while young, denied the means; And naught when old enjoyed, denied the power

If everybody in town donates one threat, the poor man has a shirt