Abstinence is approved of God.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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All good things must come to an end.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Men love newfangleness.
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