One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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