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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany small make a great.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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In love there is but little rest.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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