The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Men love newfangleness.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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