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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - Abstinence is approved of God.

Abstinence is approved of God.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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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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Argument Himself Home Learning Man Place Small Space
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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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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