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.
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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Many small make a great.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Men love newfangleness.
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