In love there is but little rest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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All good things must come to an end.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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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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