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.
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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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In love there is but little rest.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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