He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERA yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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 handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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