Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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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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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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