How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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 a true word is spoken in jest.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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In love there is but little rest.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Many small make a great.
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