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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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