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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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