There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWe little know the things for which we pray.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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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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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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