Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn the stars is written the death of every man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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