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 CHAUCERTake a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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Make a virtue of necessity.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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All good things must come to an end.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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