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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHarde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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 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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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