Joye Quotes
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye,
all but in vayne.
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More Joye Quotes
Ac thorugh his science soothy was nevere no soule ysaved, Ne broght by hir bokes to blisse ne to joye.
william langland— c.1378 Piers Plowman (B text),'Passus12', l.134-5. The'science'and 'books'are those of pagan scholars who developed natural science from empirical observation only.
"De chiens, d'oyseaulx, d'armes, d'amous,"Chascun le dit a la vollee,"Pour une joye cent doulours."
françois villon— "In riding to the hounds, in falconry,In love or war," as anyone will tell you,"For one brief joy a hundred woes."
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love.
Geoffrey Chaucer— Parlement of Foules, l. 1-4.Cf. Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1:1
