One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hands men may no hauks lure.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Many small make a great.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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