One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWe little know the things for which we pray.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERYet 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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLook up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER