That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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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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