With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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