Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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