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Hunger is the handmaid of genius
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.
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 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 hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio read more
I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem,
potionis sitim.]
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
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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.
The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius.
[Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]
The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius.
[Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]
