Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMen love newfangleness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have 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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Many small make a great.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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