The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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