What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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