Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience is a conquering virtue.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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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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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.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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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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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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