How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFull wise is he that can himself know.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Many small make a great.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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