The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn the stars is written the death of every man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Patience 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.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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