How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPeople can die of mere imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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