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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Many small make a great.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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