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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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