In love there is but little rest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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