One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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