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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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