All good things must come to an end.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn the stars is written the death of every man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Men love newfangleness.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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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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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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