Time and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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