Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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In love there is but little rest.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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