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Letter "B" » barren
«It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.»
«Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn /the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.»
Author: Freya Stark
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Keywords:
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divinity,
human soul,
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parenthood,
righteousness,
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thwarting,
unafraid,
venture
«Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow»
«Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using»
«Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.»
«And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.»
«And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.»
«And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
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bones,
cover,
Death of,
God of death,
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kings,
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Model I,
Model T,
paste,
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sake,
serves,
stories,
Telling Stories,
tells a story
«Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.»
«For when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?»