If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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 small make a great.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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