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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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