Patience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Men love newfangleness.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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In love there is but little rest.
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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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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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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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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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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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