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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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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 devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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