Many small make a great.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor time lost may not recovered be.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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