A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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