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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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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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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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