He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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