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.
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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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