But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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.
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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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