What is this world? what asketh men to have?
Now with his love, now in his colde grave
Allone, withouten any compaignye.
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The Knight's Tale, IV, 1919 - 1921.Geoffrey Chaucer
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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
A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene –
Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,
Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.William Langland
Love's very pain is sweet,
But its reward is in the world divine
Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.Percy Bysshe Shelley
The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.
Charles Henry Fowler
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