Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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