Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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