What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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 she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Many small make a great.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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 fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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