All good things must come to an end.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Men love newfangleness.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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