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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWoe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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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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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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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.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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