There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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If 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.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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All good things must come to an end.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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