70+ Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

In love there is but little rest.
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Love One Liner Rest
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Delight Happiness Himself Learning Teaching
Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Aware Himself One Liner Wisdom
Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Death End One Liner Pain World
Mercy surpasses justice.
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Justice Mercy One Liner
All good things must come to an end.
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End Goodness
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Eyes Field Nature Wood
Make a virtue of necessity.
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Necessary One Liner Virtue
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Busy Greatness Hard Work One Liner Peace
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Lost Man Recover See Time
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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End Fate Handsome Nature Oneself
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Fools Growth Old Wisdom Young
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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Complain Endurance Learning Oneself Word
A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Growth Love Old
There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Change Fashion Old
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Man Truth Wisdom Worth
He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Courtesy Freedom Love Truth
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Animal Care Cat Milk
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Flesh Grief Happiness Heart Myself
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Art Craft Learning Life Short
Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Freedom God Love Master Prison Spirit Wings
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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Best Himself Love Man Marriage Person Possible Quite Woman
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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God Man Story Woman Writing
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Cook Food Strike
With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Advice Bird Empty Hands Man One Liner
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Goodness Love Myself Worry
There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Man Well Work

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