My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLove 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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 flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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