The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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For 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.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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