How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience 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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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