With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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