Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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In love there is but little rest.
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