If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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Many small make a great.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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