Abstinence is approved of God.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAbstinence is approved of God.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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In love there is but little rest.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Certain, 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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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