Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hands men may no hauks lure.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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