Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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People can die of mere imagination.
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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.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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