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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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