But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Many small make a great.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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