Full wise is he that can himself know.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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