Geoffrey Chaucer on flesh
Geoffrey Chaucer73 quotes“One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.”
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer If 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.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Abstinence is approved of God.
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He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
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