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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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All good things must come to an end.
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