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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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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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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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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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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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