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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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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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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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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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