He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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