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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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