Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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We little know the things for which we pray.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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