And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERForbid us something, and that thing we desire.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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In love there is but little rest.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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