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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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All good things must come to an end.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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