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 CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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