The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.
How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the past may have been, 'T is enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell. . . The breeze comes whispering in our ear, That dandelions are blossoming near. . . Every thing is upward striving; 'T is as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue, - 'T is the natural way of living.
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains of an imagined piece of music. This form of thought is developed in Faraday in the highest degree, whence it arises that to one who is not acquainted with this method of thinking, his scientific works seem barren and dry, and merely a series of researches strung together, while his oral discourse when he teaches or explains is intellectual, elegant, and of wonderful clearness.
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.
'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's isle, and makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. . . 'Tis Britain's care to watch o'er Europe's fate, and hold in balance each contending state, To threaten bold presumptuous kings with war, and answer her afflicted neighbours' prayer. . . Soon as her fleets appear their terrors cease.
whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.
All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.
[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.
Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!