Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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