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All good things must come to an end.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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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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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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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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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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