I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAll good things must come to an end.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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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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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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