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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I’ll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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