He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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Many small make a great.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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