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People can die of mere imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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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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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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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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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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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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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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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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