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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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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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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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