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 CHAUCERFor 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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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Many small make a great.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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