Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLook up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBy 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLove 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThat field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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