The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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