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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLove will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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All good things must come to an end.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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In love there is but little rest.
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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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