Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning

Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning

Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?

Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?

Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.

Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.

His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.

His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.

Read o'er this
And after, this, and then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.

Read o'er this
And after, this, and then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.

Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor
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Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor
Evan till a Lethe'd dulness--

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my
provisions are not cut off, I read more

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my
provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite;
my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false
apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see
that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

And gazed around them to the left and right
With the prophetic eye of appetite.

And gazed around them to the left and right
With the prophetic eye of appetite.

But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his
youth that he cannot endure in read more

But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his
youth that he cannot endure in his age.