Time and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany small make a great.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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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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