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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThat field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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