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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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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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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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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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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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That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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