Abstinence is approved of God.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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In love there is but little rest.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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