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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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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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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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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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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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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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In love there is but little rest.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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