Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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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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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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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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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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