Mercy surpasses justice.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMy house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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Men love newfangleness.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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