Abstinence is approved of God.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish 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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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