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 CHAUCERLook up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Men love newfangleness.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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Abstinence is approved of God.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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