If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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 gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Men love newfangleness.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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