With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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