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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. - Joseph Addison With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn. - William R. Alger, Oriental Poetry, Mussud's Praise of the Camel Patience is a nobler motion than any deed. - Cyrus Augustus Bartol Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir. - Mrs. Aphra (Afra or Aphara or Ayfara) Johnson Behn The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. - Bible, Lamentations (ch. III, v. 25) I worked with patience which means almost power. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 205) And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Prometheus Bound But there are times when patience proves at fault. - Robert Browning, Paracelsus (sc. 3) Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. - Edmund Burke, Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation Give wind and tide a chance to change. - Richard E. Byrd Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.] - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (II, 23) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within. - William Ellery Channing Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne his face Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (V, l. 13,254), The Clerk's Tale Patience is sorrow's salve. - Charles Churchill, Prophecy of Famine (l. 363) Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. - Charles Caleb Colton His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains. - George Crabbe, The Borough (letter XVII) Patience! why, it is the soul of peace; of all the virtues, it is nearest kin to heaven; it makes men look like gods. The best of men that ever wore earth about him was a sufferer,--a soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; the first true gentleman that ever breathed. - Thomas Dekker (Decker) Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, Contarini Fleming (pt. IV, ch. 5) But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all. - Sarah Doudney, Psalms of Life--The Hardest Time of All We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Patience and fortitude conquer all things. - Ralph Waldo Emerson He that can have patience can have what he will. - Benjamin Franklin If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for destruction; thou art dieted for health. - Thomas Fuller (1) Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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