And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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 gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Many small make a great.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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