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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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 lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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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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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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