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 CHAUCERFilth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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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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There’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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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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With empty hands men may no hauks lure.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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All good things must come to an end.
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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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My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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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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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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