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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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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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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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