He felle dede doun colde as ony stone.
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Thomas Hearne (ed.) Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, as Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne (1725) vol. 1, p. 56.Robert Mannyng
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Spinoza says that if a stone which has been projected through the air, had consciousness, it would believe that it was moving of its own free will. I add this only, that the stone would be right. The impulse given it is for the stone what the motive is for me, and what in the case of the stone appears as cohesion, gravitation, rigidity, is in its inner nature the same as that which I recognise in myself as will, and what the stone also, if knowledge were given to it, would recognise as will.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.Geoffrey Chaucer
Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.
John Lydgate
Gay love, God save it, so soone hotte, so soone colde.
Nicholas Udall
And ones their hastie heate a littell controlde,
Than perceiue they well, hotte love soone colde.
And whan hasty witlesse mirth is mated weele,
Good to be mery and wise, they thinke and feele.John Heywood
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