Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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