Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTime and tide wait for no man.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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