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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Many small make a great.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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