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.
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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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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