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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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Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
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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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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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