Yet 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.
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 guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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In love there is but little rest.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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All good things must come to an end.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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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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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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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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