The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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In love there is but little rest.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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