Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERI am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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All good things must come to an end.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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