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.
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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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In love there is but little rest.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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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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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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