People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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