Of deaths the speediest is despair, Delays the slowest tortures are; 10 Thy cruelty at once destroys, But Expectation starves my joys.
An' what's doubly hard the lovin' Tom, troo to the last, starves with him.
Jerry jest nacherally starves to death for grass an' water.
Sometimes virtuestarves while vice is fed, What then?
True love is at home on a carpet, And mightily likes his ease,-- And true love has an eye for a dinner, And starves beneath shady trees.
He is a great simpleton who starveshimself to feed another.
O for a law to noose the villain's neck Who starves his own; who persecutes the blood He gave them in his children's veins, and hates And wrongs the woman he has sworn to love!
He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office, and, instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves his flock!
A spade does better in my hand than a governor's truncheon; and I had rather have a mess of plain porridge than lie at the mercy of an officious physic-monger, who starvesme to death.
Intellectual education allows no freedom for the creative impulse; it not only starves the creative impulse but it drives it into rebellion.
Spank, is His Majesty come to this, that he starves his own approvers?
The doctor mauls our bodies; the parson starves our souls, but the lawyer must be the adroitest knave, for he has to ensnare our minds.
I 'member one year us don't make no crop hardly and daddy say he gwine git out 'fore us starves to death, and he moves to Houston.
Lots our hosses and mules starves to death and we eats some de hosses.
It were hard not to be wrong in philosophies when the body starveson a pinch of oatmeal.
That famished slave, Beggared by wealth, who starves that he may save, Brings hither but his sheet.
I passed by his garden, and saw the wild brier, The thorn and thistle grew broader and higher; The clothes that hang on him are turning to rags, And his money still wastes till he starves or he begs.
A single hurricane destroys the hopes of a season; a flight of locusts, or an inundation, desolates a district; a trifling chemical change in an edible root starves a million of people.
For myself, I do not believe in the right to strike, and I admire the man who starves to death without making a fuss.
Yet one is yon, behind those curtains close, Who starveseven as you feed.
What starves Europe is not lack of technical knowledge; there is more technical knowledge than when Europe could feed itself.
Now intercourse has stopped, the Hungarian cornfields are without the necessary labour, and the Czech peasant starves at home, or is fed by the American Relief Fund.
Each starvesthe other and is starved by the other.
A people that starves is a people thinking only of material things--food.
Yet Europe either starves or slips into social chaos, because of the economic difficulty.
Can it be a selfishness which ruins and starves us all?
Or why should a man who starves in the midst of plenty be trusted with himself more than he who fancies he is an emperor in the midst of poverty?
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