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Beyond her famous quote, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time,” Angelou's words offer incredible insight into the human condition. ... change the way you have been ...
Patience (Middle English: Pacience) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed St. Erkenwald.
The Gawain Poet (fl. c. 1375 –1400), manuscript painting (as the father in Pearl) The "Gawain Poet" (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː w eɪ n, ˈ ɡ æ-,-w ɪ n, ɡ ə ˈ w eɪ n / GA(H)-wayn, -win, gə-WAYN; [1] [2] fl. late 14th century), or less commonly the "Pearl Poet", [3] is the name given to the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an alliterative poem written in 14th-century Middle English.
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you will have good luck; See a pin and let it lay, bad luck you will have all day; See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; Seeing is believing; Seek and ye shall find; Set a thief to catch a thief; Shiny are the distant hills; Shrouds have no pockets (Speech is silver but) Silence is golden
50. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.” 51. “No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.” 52. “It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important.
The Visionary Hope "Sad lot, to have no Hope! Though lowly kneeling" 1810 1817 Sibylline Leaves Epitaph on an Infant. ('Its balmy lips,' &c.) "Its balmy lips the infant blest" 1811 1811, March 20 The Virgin's Cradle-hymn Copied from a print of the virgin in a Roman Catholic village in Germany "Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet" 1811 1801, December 26
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As this is a philosophical poem, Cavafy wants to educate as well as warn his readers about the values of life. [1] The poet concludes his poem by commenting that if a person has ruined their life in one place, then they have ruined it all over the planet.