How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Many small make a great.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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