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GEOFFREY CHAUCER QUOTES II

Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all,
All pain, all torture, woe and all distress;
I have no need on other harms to call,
As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness,
Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less;
Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain
In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, Troilus and Cressida

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense,
Think! We are prisoners and shall always be.
Fortune has given us this adversity,
Some wicked planetary dispensation,
Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation
Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn
The contrary, so stood when we were born.
We must endure it, that's the long and short.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales

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 CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales

Hold it wise ...
To make a virtue of necessity.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, "The Knight's Tale", The Canterbury Tales

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, The Canterbury Tales


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