The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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In love there is but little rest.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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