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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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