Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBy 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Many small make a great.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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