A love grown old is not the love once new.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Many small make a great.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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