One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERCertain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Many small make a great.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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