Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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