There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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People can die of mere imagination.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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Many small make a great.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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