Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf were not foolish young, were foolish old.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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