If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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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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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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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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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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 she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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