If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

So hungry I could eat a horse

So hungry I could eat a horse

I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]

I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]

"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."

"Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."

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.

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.

It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.

It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.

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.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Hunger is the handmaid of genius