One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn love there is but little rest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWe little know the things for which we pray.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAll good things must come to an end.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLove 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 CHAUCERWith empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA love grown old is not the love once new.
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