How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFull wise is he that can himself know.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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