But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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