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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose For in your shop full many a fly is loose.
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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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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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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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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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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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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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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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