If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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