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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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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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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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He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
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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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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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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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