Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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