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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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Men love newfangleness.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Many small make a great.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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.
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