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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Men love newfangleness.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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