How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMy house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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