The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Many small make a great.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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