Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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