Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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