And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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In love there is but little rest.
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