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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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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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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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 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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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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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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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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