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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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