For time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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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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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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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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