Patience is a conquering virtue.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Tags: patience canterbury-tales chaucer franklin-s-tale

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Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!
Men may die of imaginacioun,
So depe may impressioun be take.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Tags: imagination judgment emotion

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Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Tags: love relationships chaucer

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Then the Miller fell off his horse.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Tags: humorous

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For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis;
Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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the guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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You are the cause by which I die.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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I'll die for stifled love, by all that's true.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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The man who has no wife is no cuckold.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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