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For 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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Art Craft Learning Life Short
We little know the things for which we pray.
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One Liner Prayer
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Death Heaven Man World
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Complain Endurance Learning Oneself Word
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Cook Food Strike
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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End Fate Handsome Nature Oneself
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Better Goodness Knowledge Wisdom Woman
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Eyes Field Nature Wood
One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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God Life Oneself Secret Wife
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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Argument Himself Home Learning Man Place Small Space
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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Alcohol Fall Flower Pierce Power Season
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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Freedom God Love Master Prison Spirit Wings
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Destroy Devil Journey Path Ruin Way
Men love newfangleness.
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Love Man One Liner
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Desire Mercy
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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God Man Story Woman Writing

For 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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