Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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All good things must come to an end.
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