The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMercy surpasses justice.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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