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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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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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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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