Full wise is he that can himself know.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAbstinence is approved of God.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Many small make a great.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If 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.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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