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 CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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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.
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