For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThat field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Men love newfangleness.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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