Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Many small make a great.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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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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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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