Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Many small make a great.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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