My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Men love newfangleness.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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