"Forbid us something, and that thing we desire." — Geoffrey Chaucer
"Forbid us something, and that thing we desire."
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91 Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in…
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk...
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be…
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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