Abstinence is approved of God.
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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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