Geoffrey Chaucer

1343-1400
English poet who wrote the unfinished work, the Canterbury Tales. it is considered one of the greatest poetic works in English.

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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell.

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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,

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And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days,

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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange;

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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

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Full wise is he that can himself know.

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“Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer

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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

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Love is blind.

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And she was fair as is the rose in May.

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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

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

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@OscarWilde561 I couldnt agree with you more!

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@TheAlfredAustin Everyone has their own hobby.

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@TheAlfredAustin keep us updated on your quotes Alfred!

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@bronte1820 @johnny_tolkien it may be better, but working together gets the work done much faster..

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@johnny_tolkien great quote @johnny_tolkien

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I wrote the Book of the Duchess about the death of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster.