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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 46b8703 | nada que es completo en si mismo es mas fuerte cuando se divide. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| ebc140d | El mas sabio de todos es el que no se preocupa ni pizca de que alguien sea mas rico que el.>> | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 43062ed | es indispensable que la palabra corresponda a la accion. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| a0f04f2 | Antes de que cese el trueno, cae la lluvia.>> | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| b640843 | el que habla mal no puede nunca recobrar sus palabras. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 06742ed | Todo lo que se escribe, se escribe para nuestra ensenanza.>> | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 6a3d4b2 | Aunque pueda parecer dificil de soportar, la pobreza es una clase de riqueza que nadie tratara de quitarte. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| efe903d | Nadie que este bajo la influencia de la bebida sabe guardar un secreto: esto es indiscutible. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| e47bcd8 | In the late 1300s, decades after the expulsion of the Jews from England, Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England's earliest poets, included Hugh's story in his Canterbury Tales. The cathedral in Lincoln contained a shrine to "Little St. Hugh" that was a tourist attraction for 700 years. In 1955, ten years after the Holocaust and in response to it, the plaque was removed. In its place is one with these words:" | Phyllis Goldstein | ||
| 78e1d09 | the most famous of all those who had an acquaintance with cryptology in the Middle Ages was an English customs official, amateur astronomer, and literary genius named Geoffrey Chaucer. | David Kahn | ||
| 36cfdd6 | La compasion surge rapidamente de los nobles corazones que sienten los agudos aguijonazos que sufren otros como en su propia carne; | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 5fc6839 | soy el arbol que florece antes de que el fruto madure. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| f5d53c4 | es imposible hallar al caballo perfecto en todos los aspectos | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| f3bd9e2 | Un hombre honrado y un ladron nunca pueden pensar igual. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| d7e193a | Preferia tener en la cabecera de su cama los 20 libros de Aristoteles encuadernados en negro o en rojo que vestidos lujosos, el violin y el salterio. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 914b4d5 | la virtud se aloja frecuentemente en los de condicion humilde, | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 5ab672d | la nobleza no depende de las posesiones, ya que la gente no siempre se ajusta al modelo, | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 5f9f1f9 | Quien decide con prontitud, pronto se arrepiente>> | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 21faf6d | la honradez y la buena vida siempre andan disociados, cuando se trata de gente pobre. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 2b67521 | Seneca anade: "El sabio no debe despreciar a nadie, sino ensenar lo que sabe sin presuncion u orgullo. Y las cosas que desconozca no debe avergonzarse de aprenderlas e inquirirlas de sus inferiores"." | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| b7e26df | La avaricia es la causa de todos los vicios. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| f7e17ff | This backwards journey in the narrating of this 'membering, this remembrance, is a lesson I learned from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and which considers how language, in this case, English, the only language I know, is at present of profound interest, when used in a non-traditional manner. I have used this language in The Polished Hoe, and I call it many things, but the most precise definition I have given it is contained in a book.. | Austin Clarke | ||
| ee2a161 | Opta por el no antes que por el si cuando puedas hacer algo de lo que luego te arrepentiras"." | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 4dc36a8 | haz bien a quien te perjudica y bendice a quien te maldice"." | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 0b9ac26 | All Quiet on the Western Front, | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| ee1fc29 | A CLERK there was of Oxenford* also, *Oxford That unto logic hadde long y-go*. *devoted himself As leane was his horse as is a rake, And he was not right fat, I undertake; But looked hollow*, and thereto soberly**. *thin; **poorly Full threadbare was his *overest courtepy*, *uppermost short cloak* For he had gotten him yet no benefice, Ne was not worldly, to have an office. For him was le.. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| d04e853 | Los amigos que un hombre hace en la prosperidad creo que le convertiran en enemigos en la adversidad, | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| c8c6383 | El amor es una cosa tan libre como el espiritu. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| ea11f56 | 3440 An hole he fond3440, ful lowe upon a bord, Theras3441 the cat was wont in for to crepe, And at that hole he looked in ful depe3442, And atte laste he hadde of him a sighte. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 1295ce2 | Till we be roten, kan we not be rypen? | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| d41db11 | A bettre preest, I trowe that nowher noon is. He wayted after no pompe and reverence, 525 Ne maked him a spyced conscience, But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taughte, and first he folwed it him-selve. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| f880938 | Aos amantes apresento esta questao: quem o mais desditoso, Arcita ou Palamon? Este avistava a amada todo dia, mas nao podia abandonar o carcere; aquele tinha toda a liberdade, mas nunca mais veria o seu amor. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 672a2ab | la plenitud de la felicidad consistia en el deleite perfecto, | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| d5cfad9 | Las palabras deben corresponder a la accion>>. | Geoffrey Chaucer | ||
| 6979cfc | Dream vision (Geoffrey Chaucer): And in my slepe I mette, as I lay, How African, right in that selfe aray That Scipioun him saw before that tyde Was comen, and stood right at my beddes syde Poetic vision (Blake): And by came an angel, who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins, and set them all free Narcotic vision (Thomas De Quincey): A theatre seemed suddenly opened and lighted up within my brain, which presented nightly spectacles o.. | Peter Mendelsund | ||
| 4fda776 | Men's mind and abilities grow and expand with use of responsibilities. | Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. | ||
| e018a5d | Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. --MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND QUENTIN FIORE, The Medium Is the Massage, 1967 | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 81ee5fb | History teaches over and over again that a conflict between a violent and a nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 16c185a | la violencia es real y la no violencia no lo es. Pero cuando la no violencia se hace real es una fuerza poderosa. | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 1cb8976 | It happened on April 19, 1964. It was bluebell time in Kent. | Alfred Denning, Baron Denning | ||
| 2c53cec | Mr Thornton was a freelance trumpeter of the highest quality. | Alfred Denning, Baron Denning | ||
| f639a44 | During World War I, British soldiers were fed cans of pressed caviar, which they called "fish jam" and mostly loathed. A soldier would pay for cans of sardines rather than eat the free fish jam that was issued. For" | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 7354724 | anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." The" | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| 18a4500 | THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted. The | Mark Kurlansky |