Time and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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