All good things must come to an end.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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