In the stars is written the death of every man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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