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.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERForbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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One shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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Great peace is found in little busy-ness.
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In love there is but little rest.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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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 cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
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If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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Many a true word is spoken in jest.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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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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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.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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