70+ Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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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Born Death Empty Flow Life Myself
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Flower Home Live Love Myself Nature Rose
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Action Gentle One Liner
The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Cat Eat Hard Work Herself Result
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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Argument Himself Home Learning Man Place Small Space
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Death Heaven Man World
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Age Chastity Dirty Old Powerful
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Desire Mercy
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Appearance Herself Love One Liner Rose
But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Believe God Himself Obey Teaching
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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Appearance Clothes Habit Monk Priest Soldier Wear
For time lost may not recovered be.
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Lost One Liner Recover Time
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Occasion Temper Wrong
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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God Gratitude Look Thankful
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Guilty One Liner Talk Thinking
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Hold Kind Love Mindset Old Repeat Story
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Death Imagination Impression People
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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Goodness Lying Man Missing Moral Truth Writing
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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Bed Brave Desire Generosity Live Money Myself Natural Obedience Rich Sex Wife Wisdom Woman
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Gold Iron One Liner Rust Worth
Many small make a great.
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Greatness One Liner Small
People can die of mere imagination.
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Death Himself Imagination One Liner People
In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Death Man Stars Writing
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Alone Brother Himself Politics
We little know the things for which we pray.
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One Liner Prayer
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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Book Faith Field Goodness Learning Man Old Science
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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Angry Force Forgiveness Learning Patience Reach Talk Teaching Virtue Yourself

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