John Lydgate quotes
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“All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.”
-- John LydgateSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 34-36, Chorle and Byrde, 1922.
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“All is not golde that outward shewith bright.”
-- John LydgateSource : John Lydgate, William Rowley (1842). “A Search for Money: Or, The Lamentable Complaint for the Loss of the Wandering Knight, Monsieur L'Argent”, p.22
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“Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.”
-- John LydgateSource : "Bochas", Book III, Chapter VIII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 125-27, 1922.
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“For it ne sits not unto fresh May Forto be coupled to cold January.”
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“Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.”
-- John LydgateSource : 'Secrees of Old Phillsoffres' l. 1224
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“For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.”
-- John LydgateSource : John Lydgate (2001). “The Siege of Thebes”, Western Michigan Univ Medieval
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“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”
-- John LydgateSource : John Lydgate (1975). “Early English Text Society: Extra series”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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“Nay, in death's hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove's.”
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“sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul”
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Source : "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.
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