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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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