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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Creativity Learning Time

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Afterlife Death Death And Dying Medieval Literature Middle English Soul

... murder wol out

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Futility Humanity Inevitability Murder

people have managed to marry without arithmetic

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

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you will not be master of my body & my property

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

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we know little of the things for which we pray

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Ignorance Naivete Prayer Supernatural

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Emotion Imagination Judgment

By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Books Dishonesty Evil Gender Inequality Men Storytelling Wickedness Women

Then the Miller fell off his horse.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Humorous

Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Delight Heaven Kisses

earn what you can since everything's for sale

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Democracy Desperation Opportunity Profession Vocation

you are the cause by which I die

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Catalyst Cause Death Means Reason

I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Amazing Quotes Inspirational Never Give Up

doctors & druggists wash each other's hands

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

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And after winter folweth grene May.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Afterwards Follow May Spring Winter

But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Aging Old Age

First he wrought and afterwards he taught.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Teachers Teaching

Love is blind.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Love Is Blind

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer People Greatest Wisest

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Wise Brave Wife

People can die of mere imagination.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer People Die Mere

By nature, men love newfangledness.

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Love Nature
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