What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMen love newfangleness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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In love there is but little rest.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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