If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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All good things must come to an end.
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