The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Many small make a great.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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For time lost may not recovered be.
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