There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.
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Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see...
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
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Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Love is blind.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessite,
And take it weel, that we ma...
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Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
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The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
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And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
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So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
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His studie was but litel on the Bible.
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She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.
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For gold in phisik is a cordial;
Therefore he lovede gold in special.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
[Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pr...
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Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
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That of all the floures in the mede,
Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,
Suche as...
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That men by reason will it calle may
The daisie or elles the eye of day
The emperice, and flou...
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The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.
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The thrustelcok made eek hir lay,
The wode dove upon the spray
She sang ful loude and cleere.
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And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
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But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
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Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily.
This wol be done a...
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Frieth in his own grease.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
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It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.
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The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.
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Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Many a smale maketh a grate.
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Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
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Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
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Of harmes two the less is for to chose.
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In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde
And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,--
That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
Time and tide wait for no man.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
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For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.
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Rose were sette of swete savour,
With many roses that thei bere.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve
He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.
For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well
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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
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For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to hav bent in...
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The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne,
Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
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People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
We little know the things for which we pray
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
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The life so short, the crafts so long to learn
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It is not all gold that glareth
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily
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Murder will out, this my conclusion
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doctors & druggists wash each other's hands
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Love is blind.
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean
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She loved right from the first sight
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
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Love is blynde.
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Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a
bicycle repair kit.
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Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
To speke of wo tha...
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For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;
And out of ol...
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It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
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Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no
knight.
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Nowher so besy a man as he ther was,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by...
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He koude songes make and well endite.
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And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
people have managed to marry without arithmetic
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the' assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge
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The smiler with the knife under the cloak
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Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed...
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire
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And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
... murder wol out
GEOFFREY CHAUCER have you killed me, false thief?
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Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
That if gold rust, what shall iron do?/ For if a priest be foul, in whom we trust,/ No wonder is a l...
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By nature, men love newfangledness
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ... 
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I... 
Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt... 
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New O... 
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace. 
Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list. 
Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug... 
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And she was fair as is the rose in May. 
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. 
So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.