One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMercy surpasses justice.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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