People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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