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Grosseteste Quotes By John Piper

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort. — John Piper

Grosseteste Quotes By Victor Hugo

Two principal problems.
First problem: To produce wealth.
Second problem: To distribute it ...
England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth wonderfully; she distributes it badly ... [she has] a grandeur ill constituted, in which all the material elements are combined, and into which no moral element enters.
Communism think they have solved the second problem. They are mistaken. They destroy production ... — Victor Hugo

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Amer Jaganjac

'If I have to choose between love and nice hamburger, I allways go for hamburger. Shit happens faster in that case. — Amer Jaganjac

Grosseteste Quotes By Algernon Blackwood

He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch.
("The Wendigo") — Algernon Blackwood

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Meryl Streep

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. — Meryl Streep

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Lorraine Heath

Come now, Olivia, where's your sense of humor?" Jack asked.
"It made a hasty departure when you entered my life. — Lorraine Heath

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Edouard Vuillard

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist. — Edouard Vuillard

Grosseteste Quotes By Alexandra Monir

Catch my eye,tell me what you see
Wonder if they could guess it about me
Here i'm standing in a double life
One with love,one with strife
Try to act normal,and play it cool
So afraid of breaking a rule
But now i'm falling to hard to stop
Can't help but take the next drop — Alexandra Monir

Grosseteste Quotes By John Green

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are. — John Green

Grosseteste Quotes By Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working. — Azzedine Alaia

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Few people have the imagination for reality. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Say to all small and great, and that often, that fully, quickly and willingly, without grumbling and contradiction, they do all your commands that are not against God. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals. — Robert Grosseteste

Grosseteste Quotes By Robert Grosseteste

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms. — Robert Grosseteste