For time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Men love newfangleness.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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