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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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Regret Talk Voice Word Yourself
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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Bed Brave Desire Generosity Live Money Myself Natural Obedience Rich Sex Wife Wisdom Woman
Time and tide wait for no man.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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Born Death Empty Flow Life Myself
People can die of mere imagination.
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Death Himself Imagination One Liner People
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Fools Growth Old Wisdom Young
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Man Truth Wisdom Worth
Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Conquer One Liner Patience Virtue
The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Destroy Devil Journey Path Ruin Way
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Cat Eat Hard Work Herself Result
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Death Imagination Impression People
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Authority Desire Husband Lover Position Rule Woman
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Animal Care Cat Milk
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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Argument Himself Home Learning Man Place Small Space
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Alone Brother Himself Politics
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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God Man Story Woman Writing
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Better Goodness Knowledge Wisdom Woman
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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Complain Endurance Learning Oneself Word
Many small make a great.
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Greatness One Liner Small
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Eyes Field Nature Wood
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Busy Greatness Hard Work One Liner Peace
We little know the things for which we pray.
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One Liner Prayer
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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Gold Iron Man Priest Rust Trust
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Lost Man Recover See Time
In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Death Man Stars Writing
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Gold Iron One Liner Rust Worth

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