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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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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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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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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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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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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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