One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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