patience quotes
Patience is a poynt, thagh it displese ofte. Patience is a virtue, though it often displeases.
It is often seen that bad husbands have very good wives; whether it be that it raiseth the price of their husband's kindness when it comes, or that the wives take a pride in their patience. But this never fails, if the bad husbands were of their own choosing, against their friends' consent; for then they will be sure to make good their own folly.
In your patience possess ye your souls.
Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse our patience?
Be riche in patience, gif thow in gudis be pure; Quho levis mirry, he levis michtely: Without glaidnes availis no tresour.
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.
Patience is passive, resignation is active.
O all you who believe, seek you help in patience and prayer; surely God is with the patient.
The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.
Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
Gottes Mu« hlen mahlen langsam, mahlen aber trefflich klein; Ob aus Langmut Er sich s a« umet, bringt mit Sch a« rf' Er alles ein. Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He standswaiting, with exactness grinds He all.
But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
I've heard the wolves scuffle, and said: So this Is man; sowhat better conclusion is there The day will not follow night, and the heart Of man has a little dignity, but less patience Than a wolf's, and a duller sense that cannot Smell its own mortality.
One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
Sir Henry Wottonwas also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletimea rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'
Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.
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