Patience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMake a virtue of necessity.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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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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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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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Men love newfangleness.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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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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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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All good things must come to an end.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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