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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAbstinence is approved of God.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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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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