Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hands men may no hauks lure.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Many small make a great.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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