A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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