Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Many small make a great.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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