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.
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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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