The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Men love newfangleness.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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