How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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