Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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