One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Many small make a great.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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