If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Many small make a great.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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