One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Many small make a great.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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In love there is but little rest.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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 fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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