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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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
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
But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Believe God Himself Obey Teaching
There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Man Well Work
Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Hard Heart Love
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Destroy Devil Journey Path Ruin Way
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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Angry Force Forgiveness Learning Patience Reach Talk Teaching Virtue Yourself
What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Regret Talk Voice Word Yourself
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Book Faith Field Goodness Learning Man Old Science
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Animal Care Cat Milk
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Cat Eat Hard Work Herself Result
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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Born Death Empty Flow Life Myself
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
The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Alive Ear Eyes Field Forest Nature
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Appearance Clothes Habit Monk Priest Soldier Wear
If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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Best Himself Love Man Marriage Person Possible Quite Woman

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