Abstinence is approved of God.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Many small make a great.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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