I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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