But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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