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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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All good things must come to an end.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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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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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.
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