And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Men love newfangleness.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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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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Many small make a great.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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