Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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 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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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