Patience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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In the stars is written the death of every man.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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Mercy surpasses justice.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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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 life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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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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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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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.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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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 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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What’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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