If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Many small make a great.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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