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 CHAUCERFull wise is he that can himself know.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People can die of mere imagination.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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All good things must come to an end.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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