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 CHAUCERMany small make a great.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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All good things must come to an end.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Many small make a great.
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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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