With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERAnd she was fair as is the rose in May.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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