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Geoffrey Chaucer Inspirational Quotes (89)

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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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In love there is but little rest.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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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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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
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