He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERCertain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHarde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERForbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER