One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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