Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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 fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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He 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.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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