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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.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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