Death is the end of every worldly pain.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Men love newfangleness.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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All good things must come to an end.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Many small make a great.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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