Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLook up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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