The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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People can die of mere imagination.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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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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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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All good things must come to an end.
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