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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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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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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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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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