Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Many small make a great.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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