Patience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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All good things must come to an end.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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In love there is but little rest.
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