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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Men love newfangleness.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Many small make a great.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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