What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEREvery honest miller has a golden thumb.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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.
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Many small make a great.
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Men love newfangleness.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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All good things must come to an end.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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In love there is but little rest.
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