How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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In love there is but little rest.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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