Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
More Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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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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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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Many small make a great.
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