Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn the stars is written the death of every man.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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 shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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 cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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Love 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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