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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
Hungry bellies have no cars.
[Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.
A fishmonger's wife may feed of a conger; but a serving-man's
wife may starve for hunger.
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.
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.
"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."
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
