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 CHAUCERIf 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Men love newfangleness.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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