Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor 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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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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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Mercy surpasses justice.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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Men love newfangleness.
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