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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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Argument Himself Home Learning Man Place Small Space
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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Many small make a great.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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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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Men love newfangleness.
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Love Man One Liner
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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