A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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