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Geoffrey Chaucer Inspirational Quotes (89)

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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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