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 CHAUCERIn the stars is written the death of every man.
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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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One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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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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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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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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