Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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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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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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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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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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