"In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here."

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Source : c.1377 Piers Plowman (B text), prologue, l.1-4. (shoop = got, shroudes = garments)

William Langland

#Sheep Quotes #World Quotes #This World Quotes

“Why not stand up, pump your fists in the air, and scream like a maniac? -”
“Use soft words in hard arguments.”
“I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much.”
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”
“I studied voiceover, and I studied acting and I got my first series and my first agent a week out of high school. And it took me about five years of hit-or-miss auditioning and booking on occasion before I could support myself totally as an actor.”
“I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (2007). “Robinson: Poems”, Everyman's Library
“I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact some of them are rather slow. This is not a bad thing; they are slow because they think deeply and carefully about mathematics.”
“Humility makes great men twice honorable”

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