Many small make a great.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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In love there is but little rest.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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