But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERDeath is the end of every worldly pain.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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