Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
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Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.
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O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.
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Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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They demen gladly to the badder end.
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The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.
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He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.
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Love is blind.