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 CHAUCERAll good things must come to an end.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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