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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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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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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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