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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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One cannot be avenged for every wrong according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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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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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. 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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To keep demands as much skill as to win.
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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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All good things must come to an end.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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