“Comparable with Chawcer, yet more occupyed in supersticious and odde matters than was requesite in so good a wytte.”
William Webbe A Discourse of Englishe Poetry ([1586] 1970) p. 32.
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monk and poet 1370–1450Related quotes
“There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”
Letter 9 (August 25, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
“Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.”
Freier Wille ohne Fatum ist ebenso wenig denkbar, wie Geist ohne Reelles, Gutes ohne Böses.
"Fatum und Geschichte," April 1862
Bk. 5, ch. 8; p. 179.
Anabasis
Reading as Construction (1980)
II, 11
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book II
2010s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (July 20, 2016)
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
