How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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 no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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