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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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Air, Loud, Foul

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1895). “The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His Works”

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• By nature, men love newfangledness.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Invention

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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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  Use, Temperance, Temperament

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

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  Grief, Heart, Flesh

  Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright (1998). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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• For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Journey

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• If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

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  Love, Woe, Be Good

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)”, p.530, Delphi Classics

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• By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Clerks, Stories

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• Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, May, Lost

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas TYRWHITT (F.R.S.) (1843). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse; Together with Notes and a Glossary. By Thomas Tyrwhitt. [With a Portrait.]”, p.248

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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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Book, Men, Years

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• For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

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  Adversity, Thinking, Long

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• To keep demands as much skill as to win.

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  Winning, Skills, Demand

  Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp (2006). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.

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  Heart, Literature, Whole

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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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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  Wise, Wisdom, School

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

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  Cat, Meat, Milk

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.

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  World, Ifs, Manly

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)”, p.447, Delphi Classics

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• One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.

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  Complaining, Want, Breathe

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

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  Mind Love, Stories, Kind

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• In love there is but little rest.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Littles

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2014). “The court of love and other works”, p.238, Lulu.com

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• Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

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  Heart, Gold, Use

  Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright (1998). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.152, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.

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  Heart, May, Hard

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• Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.

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  Kindness, Als, Kind

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• Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be, That may bothe werke wel and hastily.

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  Work, May

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2016). “The Merchant's Prologue and Tale”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.

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  Men, Rome

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “The Canterbury Tales in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.368, BookCaps Study Guides

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• With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.

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  Men, Hands, May

  Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife Of Bath's Tale”

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• Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

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  Powerful, Age, Literature

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1959). “The Canterbury Tales”

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