If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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