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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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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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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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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.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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