"There is but one thing without honor, smitten……" — Thomas Carlyle

More Barrenness Quotes

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• What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged… — John Quincy Adams
• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge… — Petrarch
• THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into… — William Carlos Williams
• Beware the barrenness of a busy life. — Socrates
• Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives… — Samuel Johnson
• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy. — Daisaku Ikeda
• The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple. — Donald M. MacKinnon
• When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over. — George Carey
• The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to… — Hugh B. Brown
• Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely. — Spencer W. Kimball
• He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the… — Joshua Reynolds
• Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even… — Loren Eiseley

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