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 CHAUCERMercy surpasses justice.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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