Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPeople can die of mere imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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