My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMy house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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In love there is but little rest.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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