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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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