Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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