In the stars is written the death of every man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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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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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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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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