How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThat field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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