He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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