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 CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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