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People can die of mere imagination.


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People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Greater possibilities supersedes mere imagination
SUNDAY ADELAJA Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and ...
WENDELL BERRY Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.
C.S. LEWIS Let him who walks in darkness and no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God
PEOPLE OF CHRIST For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING For tis not in mere death that men die most.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING He [Chaucer] is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDEN A mere madness, to live like a wretch, and die rich.
ROBERT BURTON Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer,...
HELEN KELLER I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you wil...
BRIAN HELGELAND Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shake...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
EDMUND SPENSER What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
PETE HAMILL With the right use of imagination,you can be every where & be all things to all people.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He [Chaucer] lacks the high seriousness of the great classics, and therewith an important part of th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in...
DAVID EDDINGS Fresh is best.
DIE BOOTH People don’t die so the universe can gauge your reaction. They die because life is finite.
DAN GROAT Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut ...
STAR TREK Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER To be in a state to love trance so much trance must be in your heart, mind and soul the music its se...
GARY F EVANS... Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
G. W. F. HEGEL Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
GEORG HEGEL A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.
JOSHUA REYNOLDS The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in e...
JAMES LEE BURKE The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean M...
WILLIAM CAXTON I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
SUSAN HILL I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no mo...
GEORGE WEISS RAINBOW I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no mo...
GEORGE WEISS RAINBOW Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid ...
MEREDITH WOOD Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to ...
BILLY COLLINS We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, dependin...
TREVOR NOAH Imagination can take you to any place of interest.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN People don't die from carrying a fake handbag or wearing a fake t-shirt. They can die from taking a ...
HOWARD ZUCKER Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.
GEORGE MACDONALD In a society where people can kill their wives on mere suspicion of being disloyal, what they will d...
AMJAD ALI No one can display or can cultivate a fervent zeal in the mere repetition of a form.
WILLIAM GODWIN Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
JANE SMILEY Only one worm to a can, but it's a really big worm.
UNREPENTANT DISILLUSIONIST A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
CHINA MIéVILLE Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. ...
LENI RIEFENSTAHL It really stretches the imagination to see what people have come up with.
PAUL MYER I was very lucky that we were able to create something that stimulated the imagination of young peop...
GEORGE LUCAS If you let imagination run in both towers, you could see why people spin stories about them, ... Aik...
LOUISE YEOMAN The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith,...
ELIHU ROOT No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER Imagination can take you Places....READ
BRANDON MULL No mere mortal man can do what Christ Jesus did?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
JOSH BILLINGS Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Doors are for people with no imagination.
DEREK LANDY I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happen...
LLOYD ALEXANDER I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
FRANZ SCHUBERT People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and fu...
GRETCHEN RUBIN You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s...
CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal...
CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
CAN YüCEL Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match
INGRID BENGIS Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD No mere man can do, what the Son of Man, the Saviour, did for all mankind.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
ANON. Only in your imagination can you revise.
FAY WRAY Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
ANONYMOUS Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
MARK TWAIN People die of fright and live of confidence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You can run from the inquiry of mere mortals, but you can't run from the inquiry of God.
FATHOM Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and h...
BRUCE STERLING I have a darker imagination than most people.
EDAN LEPUCKI Common sense is for people who lack imagination.
PRABHUDOSS SAMUEL Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
DEAN KOONTZ If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip.
JOHN HUTTON To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people...
BEN MARCUS Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to k...
NEIL GAIMAN Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
LAUREN BACALL The human imagination can connect to practically anything.
AMY GERSTLER Imagination is the highest kite one can fly
LAUREN BACALL Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.
JIM HARRISON Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
LAUREN BACALL Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
CHAUCER We know little of the things for which we pray.
CHAUCER Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
CHAUCER The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
CHAUCER Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see...
CHAUCER First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
CHAUCER Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).
CHAUCER There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.
CHAUCER Time and tide wait for no man.
CHAUCER The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
CHAUCER We know little of the things for which we pray.
CHAUCER Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
CHAUCER The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
CHAUCER Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see...
CHAUCER First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
CHAUCER Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).
CHAUCER There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.
CHAUCER Time and tide wait for no man.
CHAUCER The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
CHAUCER Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
CHAUCER Love is blind.
CHAUCER And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite, And take it weel, that we ma...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER His studie was but litel on the Bible.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pr...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day The emperice, and flou...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray She sang ful loude and cleere.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done a...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Frieth in his own grease.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The guilty think all talk is of themselves
GEOFFREY CHAUCER First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Many a smale maketh a grate.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Of harmes two the less is for to chose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Patience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER There's never a new fashion but it's old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Time and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.
For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well
GEOFFREY CHAUCER He was as fresh as is the month of May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this, A man to hav bent in...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER We little know the things for which we pray
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The life so short, the crafts so long to learn
GEOFFREY CHAUCER It is not all gold that glareth
GEOFFREY CHAUCER There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Murder will out, this my conclusion
GEOFFREY CHAUCER doctors & druggists wash each other's hands
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Love is blind.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean
GEOFFREY CHAUCER She loved right from the first sight
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Love is blynde.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me To speke of wo tha...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere; And out of ol...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER He koude songes make and well endite.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity
GEOFFREY CHAUCER people have managed to marry without arithmetic
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the' assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The smiler with the knife under the cloak
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Forbid us something, and that thing we desire
GEOFFREY CHAUCER And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach
GEOFFREY CHAUCER The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ... murder wol out
GEOFFREY CHAUCER have you killed me, false thief?
CHAUCER GEOFFREY Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER That if gold rust, what shall iron do?/ For if a priest be foul, in whom we trust,/ No wonder is a l...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By nature, men love newfangledness
GEOFFREY CHAUCER