"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation."

Gettysburg Address

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people."

Gettysburg Address

"WHANNE that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 1.

"And smale foules maken melodie, That slepen alle night with open eye, So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9.

"And of his port as meke as is a mayde."

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"He was a veray parfit gentil knight."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 72.

"He coude songes make, and wel endite."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 95.

"Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 122.

"A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 287.

"For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 295.

"And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 310.

"Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as, And yet he semed besier than he was."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 323.

"His studie was but litel on the Bible."

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"For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special."

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"Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder."

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"This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,-- That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught."

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"But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught; but first he folwed it himselve."

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"And yet he had a thomb of gold parde."

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 565.

"Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe."

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"For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte."

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1044.

"That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears."

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"Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie."

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"Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie."

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2408.

"To maken vertue of necessite."

Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 3044.

"And brought of mighty ale a large quart."

Canterbury Tales. The Milleres Tale. Line 3497.

"Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done at leisure parfitly."

Canterbury Tales. The Marchantes Tale. Line 585.

"Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken."

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. Line 3880.

"The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men."

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4051.

"So was hire joly whistle wel ywette."

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"In his owen grese I made him frie."

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"And for to see, and eek for to be seie."

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"I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to."

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"Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman."

Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6695.

"That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis."

Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6752.

"This flour of wifly patience."

Canterbury Tales. The Clerkes Tale. Part v. Line 8797.

"They demen gladly to the badder end."

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"Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone, That shall eat with a fend."

Canterbury Tales. The Squieres Tale. Line 10916.

"Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal."

Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleines Prologue. Line 10998.

"Truth is the highest thing that man may keep."

Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleines Tale. Line 11789.

"Full wise is he that can himselven knowe."

Canterbury Tales. The Monkes Tale. Line 1449.

"Mordre wol out, that see we day by day."

Canterbury Tales. The Nonnes Preestes Tale. Line 15058.

"But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told."

Canterbury Tales. The Chanones Yemannes Tale. Line 16430.

"The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge."

Canterbury Tales. The Manciples Tale. Line 17281.

"The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate."

Canterbury Tales. Persones Tale.

"Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese."

Troilus and Creseide. Book ii. Line 470.

"Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake."

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"For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,-- A man that hath been in prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is."

Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1625.

"He helde about him alway, out of drede, A world of folke."

Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1721.

"One eare it heard, at the other out it went."

Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 435.

"Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun."

Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 525.