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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
Geoffrey Chaucer
But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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