Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERForbid us something, and that thing we desire.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Many small make a great.
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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.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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In love there is but little rest.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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