What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHow potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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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 handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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