Many small make a great.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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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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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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