And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFull wise is he that can himself know.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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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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