Men love newfangleness.
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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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