Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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