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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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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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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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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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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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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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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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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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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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