Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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