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.
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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Many small make a great.
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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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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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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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All good things must come to an end.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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