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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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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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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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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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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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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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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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For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose For in your shop full many a fly is loose.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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