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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERYet 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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