Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPeople can die of mere imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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