The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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