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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAll good things must come to an end.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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