Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMen love newfangleness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Men love newfangleness.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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