Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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All good things must come to an end.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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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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