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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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All good things must come to an end.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want 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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Many small make a great.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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