The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERPatience 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.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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All good things must come to an end.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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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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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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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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Abstinence is approved of God.
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In love there is but little rest.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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