"He who would tell divers tales must know……" — Marie de France
"He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune."
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21 Quotes by Marie de France
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
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Man created God in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent.
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Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
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We love what we should scorn if we were wiser.
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your…
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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
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Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell…
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But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.
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But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.
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Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.
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There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things…
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For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before…
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More Divers Quotes
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I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray…
— William Tyndale
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For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto…
— Francis Bacon
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A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles,…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of…
— Kingsley Amis
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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent…
— Sylvia Earle
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The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched…
— Michael Chabon
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I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
— Marie de France
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Love is the most great law that ruleth this mighty and heavenly cycle, the unique power that bindeth together the…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have…
— John Grant
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