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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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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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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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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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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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