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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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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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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 the stars is written the death of every man.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Occasion Temper Wrong
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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Women 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.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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