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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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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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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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The bisy larke, messager of day.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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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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