For time lost may not recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWomen 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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