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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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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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 gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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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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That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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