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 CHAUCERIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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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 no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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In love there is but little rest.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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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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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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