With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer For time lost may not recovered be.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Many small make a great.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer People can die of mere imagination.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer In the stars is written the death of every man.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer
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