What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn love there is but little rest.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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If 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.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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 general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath 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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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 she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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