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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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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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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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