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Tag Name "Dearth" (20)

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No one would rather hunt woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I find myself calling one or two birds enough. I must be sure that, come April, there be no dearth of dancers in the sunset sky.
Aldo Leopold
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There are too many men and women there is too little Humanity. ... There is a dearth of understanding, of nakedness of spirit. All of us are over-dressed no man knows what heart beats in his neighbour's bosom.
Anna Kingsford
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A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
Caroline Norton
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It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.
Epictetus
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There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.
Ian Brown
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All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
John Donne
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Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.
Lydia M. Child
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In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
Mason Cooley
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The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.
William Davenant
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There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
Al Seckel
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What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty.
Alexander Murdoch Mackay
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India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other nations in space exploration and one of them will fulfil her dreams.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
Emily Blunt
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There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
Gerald Massey
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At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
John Donne
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In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre, writing, and painting. While the American Mercury and the new Ford continue to spread a thin varnish of Ritz over the whole United States there is a certain virtue in being unfashionable.
John Dos Passos
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
Mahesh Bhupathi
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I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.
Nina Fedoroff
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The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.
Wilfred Owen