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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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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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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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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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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.
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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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