Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn the stars is written the death of every man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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