The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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