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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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