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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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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 nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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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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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
Geoffrey Chaucer
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
Geoffrey Chaucer
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Geoffrey Chaucer
People can die of mere imagination.
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