I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBy 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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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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