And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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For 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.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Many small make a great.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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