He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany small make a great.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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