With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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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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All good things must come to an end.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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