Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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