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 CHAUCEROne 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Men love newfangleness.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Many small make a great.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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