Death is the end of every worldly pain.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Men love newfangleness.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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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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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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Many small make a great.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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One 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.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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