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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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