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Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

"Great cheere our Host made us every one""Who all things can endure does the greatest deed of all""So long as I please you and you please me""Patience is a conquering virtue""No man is worth anything unless he can carry his life with grace ""We fail far more often from timidity than from over-daring ""When the sun is high, who cares for the stars?""The lyf so short, the art so long to lerne""It is nought good a sleping hound to wake""He who covets is a poor man because he wants so many things ""Great is the force of a mighty make""And thus does everyone find that which he fears""Who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock""Forbid us something and that thing we desire""What is better than to sit at ease and listen to the best that the poets sing?""We little know the thing that we fear""For out of the old fields comes all this new corn""The greatest scholars are not the wisest men""The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne""When April with its sweet showers has..."