With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Men love newfangleness.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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