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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAbstinence is approved of God.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Men love newfangleness.
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