With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAbstinence is approved of God.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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