The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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If 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.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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