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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 of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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The bisy larke, messager of day.
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