A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor time lost may not recovered be.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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