Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Many small make a great.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Men love newfangleness.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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