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Patience.

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01In print by 1893 AD

Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.

Buffon (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

02c. 1612 AD

He that gets patience, and the blessing which / Preachers conclude with, hath not lost his pains.

George Herbert / quote

03c. 1425 AD

In all straits the good behave themselves with meekness and patience.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

04c. 1844 AD

It is the fate of a woman / Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, / Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

05c. 1425 AD

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

06c. 1751 AD

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

07In print by 1893 AD

Nothing does so much honour to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the patience of her husband.

Joubert (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

08c. 1777 AD

Novelty has something in it that inebriates the fancy, and not unfrequently dissipates and fumes away like other intoxication, and leaves the poor patient, as usual, with an aching heart.

Robert Burns / quote

09c. 1763 AD

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke / quote

10c. 1695 AD

Patience had no sooner placed herself by the mount of sorrows, but the whole heap sunk to such a degree, that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before.

Joseph Addison / quote

11c. 1745 AD

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote

12In print by 1893 AD

Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than in the temper.

Helps (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

13In print by 1893 AD

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience, the ruin of strength.

Colton (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

14c. 1807 AD

Patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe not more to our happiness than to the quiet of the world at large.

Sydney Smith / quote

15c. 1855 AD

Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive.

James Russell Lowell / quote

16In print by 1893 AD

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.

Holmes (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

17c. 1666 AD

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience.

John Dryden / quote

18c. 1838 AD

The gods are long-suffering; but the law from the beginning was, He that will not work shall perish from the earth; and the patience of the gods has limits.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

19In print by 1893 AD

The principal part of faith is patience.

George Macdonald (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

20In print by 1893 AD

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

La Bruyère (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

21In print by 1893 AD

There is no well-doing, no godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

J. G. Holland (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

22In print by 1893 AD

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigour, and not by patient, wary steps.

Hazlitt (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

23In print by 1893 AD

Truth is to be costly to you—of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

24c. 1838 AD

What Art had Homer? what Art had Shakespeare? Patient, docile, valiant intelligence, conscious and unconscious, gathered from all winds, of these two things—their own faculty of utterance, and the audience they had to utter to; add only to which, as the soul of the whole, a blazing, radiant insight into the fact, blazing, burning interest about it, and we have the whole Art of Shakespeare and Homer.

Thomas Carlyle / quote