How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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In love there is but little rest.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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