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With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.
Author: William R. Alger
Source: Oriental Poetry, Mussud's Praise of the Camel
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The Lord is good unto them who wait for him, to the soul that
seeketh him.
Author: Bible
Source: Lamentations (ch. III, v. 25)
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I worked with patience which means almost power.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 205)
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And I must bear
What is ordained with patience, being aware
Necessity doth front the universe
With an invincible gesture.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Prometheus Bound
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But there are times when patience proves at fault.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Paracelsus (sc. 3)
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There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
[Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (II, 23)
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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.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (V, l. 13,254), The Clerk's Tale
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Patience is sorrow's salve.
Author: Charles Churchill
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
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His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains,
But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: The Borough (letter XVII)
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Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Contarini Fleming (pt. IV, ch. 5)
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But the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
Author: Sarah Doudney
Source: Psalms of Life--The Hardest Time of All
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The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Author: George Herbert
Source: The Church Porch (st. 72)
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Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Author: George Herbert
Source: The Church Porch (st. 72)
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It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through
patience.
[Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia
Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (I, 24, 19)
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For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: The Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 352)
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By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
[Fr., Patience et longueur de temps.
Font plus que force ni que rage.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (II, 11)
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Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Hiawatha (pt. X, Hiawatha's Wooing)
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Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: A Psalm of Life (st. 9)
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Student's Tale (pt. I)
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Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Columbus (l. 237)
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Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 568)
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Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Amorum (III, 11, 7)
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Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
[Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (I, 26, 12)
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
[Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (I, 26, 12)
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Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Source: None
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Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.
Author: St. Francis de Sales
Source: None
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
Author: W. H. Auden
Source: None
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Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.
Author: Iranian Proverb
Source: None
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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
Author: Bill Mcglashen
Source: None
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Everything comes to him who waits.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.
Author: John Christian Morgenstern
Source: None
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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Author: Indian Proverb
Source: None
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There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.
Author: C. S. Robinson
Source: None
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Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: None
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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Source: None
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Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
Author: Marquise De Sévigné
Source: None
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Jesus' Fig Tree
He did belittle you..
but soon he'll bebig you..
and in the spring
with blooms he will wig you..
in summer he'll summon
a jade garb
to resprig you..
and in the fall
on patient twigs
with fresh fruit
he'll refig you.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
Author: John Dryden
Source: None
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Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
Author: John Milton
Source: None
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Source: None
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Author: Thomas A. Edison
Source: None
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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