The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMercy surpasses justice.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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One 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.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Many small make a great.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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In love there is but little rest.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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