People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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