Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERDeath is the end of every worldly pain.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Many small make a great.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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