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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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