Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn love there is but little rest.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of 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 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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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