Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFull wise is he that can himself know.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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