But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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