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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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In love there is but little rest.
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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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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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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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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For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose For in your shop full many a fly is loose.
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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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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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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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All good things must come to an end.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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