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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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