Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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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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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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