With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn the stars is written the death of every man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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