If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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 the stars is written the death of every man.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Many small make a great.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Men love newfangleness.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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