Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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