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Many a true word is spoken in jest
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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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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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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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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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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. . . 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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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
Geoffrey Chaucer
Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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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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Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
Geoffrey Chaucer
What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
Geoffrey Chaucer
To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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In love there is but little rest.
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