The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Many small make a great.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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