A Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

For tyme ylost may nought recovered be. — © Geoffrey Chaucer
For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

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May
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Nought may endure but Mutability.
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
You get thrown off balance out there. And I never recovered. Well, I haven't recovered yet.
Nought venture, nought have. [Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
Nought venture nought have.
The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert earth alone. And in that deep and utter agony, Though then, then even most unfit to die I fell upon my knees and prayed for death.
Germany may have recovered a flying saucer as early as 1939
In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.
We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!
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