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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERDeath is the end of every worldly pain.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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Many small make a great.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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