The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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