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 CHAUCERIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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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.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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