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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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London
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Keep
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Skill
Demands
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Skills
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Winning
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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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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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Many a true word is spoken in jest
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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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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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