And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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Many small make a great.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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