But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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