One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hands men may no hauks lure.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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In love there is but little rest.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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