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 CHAUCERDeath is the end of every worldly pain.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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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 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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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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Love 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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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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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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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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Many small make a great.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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