In love there is but little rest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHabit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Many small make a great.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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