Death is the end of every worldly pain.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Men love newfangleness.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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