The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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