"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." — Socrates
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
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Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
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There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
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The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
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Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.
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