Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAbstinence is approved of God.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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