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Mercy surpasses justice.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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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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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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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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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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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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In love there is but little rest.
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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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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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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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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