With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.
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Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Hunger that persuades to evil.
[Lat., Malesuada fames.]
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If read more
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
to them except in the form of read more
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear
to them except in the form of bread.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
A hungry man is not a free man.
A hungry man is not a free man.
