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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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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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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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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
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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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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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