All good things must come to an end.
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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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 time lost may not recovered be.
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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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