If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPeople can die of mere imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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