Men love newfangleness.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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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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Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Full wise is he that can himself know.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Death is the end of every worldly pain.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Mercy surpasses justice.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer All good things must come to an end.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer 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 ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer A love grown old is not the love once new.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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