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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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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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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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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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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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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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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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