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 CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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