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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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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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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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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
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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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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest
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