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Geoffrey Chaucer Quote - A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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Acceptance Himself Hope Hurt Poor Poverty Rich True
People can die of mere imagination.
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Death Himself Imagination One Liner People
The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Alive Ear Eyes Field Forest Nature
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Fingers Gold Honesty One Liner
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Gold Iron One Liner Rust Worth
Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Man Truth Wisdom Worth
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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Gold Iron Man Priest Rust Trust
Men love newfangleness.
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Love Man One Liner
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Delight Happiness Himself Learning Teaching
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Animal Care Cat Milk
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Lost Man Recover See Time
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Flesh Grief Happiness Heart Myself
But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Believe God Himself Obey Teaching
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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Born Death Empty Flow Life Myself
Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Busy Greatness Hard Work One Liner Peace
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Guilty One Liner Talk Thinking
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Hold Kind Love Mindset Old Repeat Story
There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Man Well Work
The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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End Fate Handsome Nature Oneself
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Goodness Love Myself Worry
He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Courtesy Freedom Love Truth
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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Freedom God Love Master Prison Spirit Wings
There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Change Fashion Old
With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Advice Bird Empty Hands Man One Liner
All good things must come to an end.
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End Goodness
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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God Man Story Woman Writing
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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