All good things must come to an end.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERYet 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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 fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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