Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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