I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Patience 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.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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 gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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 manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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