He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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Many small make a great.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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