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.
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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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