The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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 love grown old is not the love once new.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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In love there is but little rest.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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