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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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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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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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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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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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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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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