Full wise is he that can himself know.
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 rusts, what then can iron do?
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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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.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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