#soniaerrthum

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And you shall have more merit in heaven for one year of thinking in your mind than for a hundred years of praying with your mouth.

Margery Kempe

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The centrality of Christ's living presence in the liturgy was, furthermore, reaffirmed and extended with the establishment, through Christendom, of the Feast of Corpus Christi first proclaimed by the pope in 1264 and again in 1311. This feast celebrated the Eucharistic host, or wafer, as Christ's body.

Norton Anthology of English Literature

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Affermeth dremes, and saith that they been   Warnings of thinges that men after seen

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

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We wommen han, if that I shal nat lie In this matere a quaint fantasye Waite what thing we may nat lightly have Therefore wol we crye al day and crave Forbedes us thing, and that desiren we Preese on us faste, and thanne wol we flee With daunger oute we al oure chaffare Greet prees at market maketh dere ware And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris This knoweth every womman that is wis

The Wife of Bath’s Prologue

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For man's crimes cannot be covered but never made clean once sin is entwined, it is attached for all time.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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He held them with his eyes,   and looked from right to left,    not knowing of those knights,    which person to respect.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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Mother Philosophy has taken you to her bosom, and to you she has taught the subtlety of her sciences.

Geoffrey of Monmouth

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For every one of us, living in this world,  means waiting for our end. Let whoever can  win glory before death.

Beowulf