Patience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERCertain, 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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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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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I’d say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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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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