There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLove will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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