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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Certain, 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.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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If 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.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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