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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERGreat peace is found in little busy-ness.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Men love newfangleness.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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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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Many small make a great.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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