The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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 greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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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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