Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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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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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Many small make a great.
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