My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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In love there is but little rest.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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