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• Death is the end of every worldly pain.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, Pain, Ends

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.180, Barron's Educational Series

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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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Patience, Taught, Desert

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Cooking, Woe

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• And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Brother, Politics, Dear

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Eye, Ears, Woods

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1990). “Canterbury Tales”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Knights, Spurs, Monk

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• One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Marriage, Wife, Secret

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Winning, Men, Years

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Fate, Handsome, Talent

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  People, Imagination, Fancy

  Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright (1965). “The Canterbury tales”, Vintage

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• In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Husband, Desire, Lovers

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• If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Foolish, Young, Folly

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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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Pain, Rain, Heaven

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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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. . . .

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Iron, Gold

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Literature, May, Wells

  Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Merchant's Tale”

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• For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Time, May

  'Troilus and Criseyde' bk. 4, l. 1283

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• And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Ministry, Teach

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.20, Barron's Educational Series

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• The latter end of joy is woe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Joy, Woe, Ends

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1861). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary”, p.117

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• I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
  The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
  By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
  The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
  The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis,
  Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon.
  The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
  Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
  Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe,
  Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin,
  And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Moon, Iron

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• Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Thankfulness, Looks, Look Up

  Geoffrey Chaucer, “To Life's Pilgrim”

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• First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Teaching, Firsts, Taught

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1798). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse Together with Notes and a Glossary”, p.17

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• Men love newfangleness.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Progress

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• Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, Long Ago, Flow

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Make a virtue of necessity.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Humility, Virtue, Fame

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1822). “Arcita and Paloma: After the Excellent Poet, Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.109

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