The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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 were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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