People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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