We little know the things for which we pray.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERForbid us something, and that thing we desire.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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