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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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The bisy larke, messager of day.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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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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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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