Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Many small make a great.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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