Death is the end of every worldly pain.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Many small make a great.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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