Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERYet 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Many small make a great.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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