There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBy 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Men love newfangleness.
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