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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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Distance Foreign Heart Land Nature People Pilgrimage Seek
There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Man Well Work
People can die of mere imagination.
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Death Himself Imagination One Liner People
All good things must come to an end.
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End Goodness
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Appearance Clothes Habit Monk Priest Soldier Wear
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Desire Mercy
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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Acceptance Himself Hope Hurt Poor Poverty Rich True
One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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God Life Oneself Secret Wife
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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God Gratitude Look Thankful
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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Complain Endurance Learning Oneself Word
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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God Man Story Woman Writing
Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Aware Himself One Liner Wisdom
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Death Heaven Man World
With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Advice Bird Empty Hands Man One Liner
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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Argument Himself Home Learning Man Place Small Space
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Gold Iron One Liner Rust Worth
He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Courtesy Freedom Love Truth
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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Bed Brave Desire Generosity Live Money Myself Natural Obedience Rich Sex Wife Wisdom Woman
Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Death End One Liner Pain World
Men love newfangleness.
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Love Man One Liner
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Animal Care Cat Milk
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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Born Death Empty Flow Life Myself
But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Believe God Himself Obey Teaching
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Man Truth Wisdom Worth
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Goodness Love Myself Worry
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Fools Growth Old Wisdom Young
Mercy surpasses justice.
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Justice Mercy One Liner

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