The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWe little know the things for which we pray.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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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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