With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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 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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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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