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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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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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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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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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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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All good things must come to an end.
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