Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In 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 who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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