One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Men love newfangleness.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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For 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.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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