And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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