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 CHAUCERFor time lost may not recovered be.
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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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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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For time lost may not recovered be.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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All good things must come to an end.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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