One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People can die of mere imagination.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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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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