Mercy surpasses justice.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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