But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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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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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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