All good things must come to an end.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLove 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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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