People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hands men may no hauks lure.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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