The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn 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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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All good things must come to an end.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Men love newfangleness.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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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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