People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERYet 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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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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 hands men may no hauks lure.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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