My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPeople can die of mere imagination.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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Many small make a great.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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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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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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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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