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Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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