And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAbstinence is approved of God.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPeople can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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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