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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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