Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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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 yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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In love there is but little rest.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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