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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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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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 eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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