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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.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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