And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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