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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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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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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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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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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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