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 CHAUCERThe guilty think all talk is of themselves.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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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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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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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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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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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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One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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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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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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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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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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