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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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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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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
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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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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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