Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Many small make a great.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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