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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor time lost may not recovered be.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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