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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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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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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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In love there is but little rest.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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