But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAll good things must come to an end.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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