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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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