Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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