Geoffrey Chaucer on death
Geoffrey Chaucer73 quotes“But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.”
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer For time lost may not recovered be.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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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