How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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