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.
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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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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 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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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