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Abstinence is approved of God.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Men love newfangleness.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Patience is a conquering virtue.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer
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We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?
XenophonXenophon The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.
Hannah ArendtHannah Arendt Our Experience Is Determined By Our Conscious Response, Not By Instincts.
SadhguruSadhguru I try so hard to cloak my impurity so that I can hide my shadows from everyone around me. I’ll summon this will, and instead, command it to keep myself alive.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur If your humanity is dead, you need a lot of morality. If your humanity is alive and overflowing, you will naturally do the best for yourself and everyone around you.
SadhguruSadhguru Whatever you have to do right now, do it with absolute involvement. Only then will you know the sweetness of what it means to be conscious.
SadhguruSadhguru My original appearance now is impure and that is why I try so hard to hide it from everyone harder than I work on keeping myself alive.
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