The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWe little know the things for which we pray.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Many small make a great.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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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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