I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Many small make a great.
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