Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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