Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Many small make a great.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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 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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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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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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