Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn 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.
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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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