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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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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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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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 out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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In love there is but little rest.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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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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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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