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Patience.

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01c. 1593 AD

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul.

Francis Bacon / quote

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02In print by 1893 AD

Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

H. Ballou (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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03In print by 1893 AD

Meekness is not mere white-facedness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations.

Ward Beecher (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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04c. 1746 AD

Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, / Obedient passions, and a will resigned; / For love, which scarce collective man can fill; / For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; / For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, / Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.

Samuel Johnson / quote

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05In print by 1893 AD

Waft yourselves, yearning souls, upon the stars; / Sow yourselves on the wandering winds of space; / Watch patient all your days, if your eyes take / Some dim, cold ray of knowledge. The dull world / Hath need of you—the purblind, slothful world!

Lewis Morris (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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06c. 1646 AD

We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity.

Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld / quote

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07In print by 1893 AD

Weighty things are done in solitude, that is, without society. The means of improvement consist not in projects, or in any violent designs, for these cool, and cool very soon, but in patient practising for whole long days, by which I make the thing clear to my highest reason.

Jean Paul (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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08In print by 1893 AD

Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Sa’dī · Unknown culture / quote

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09In print by 1893 AD

Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Bhāravi · Unknown culture / quote

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10In print by 1893 AD

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: R. Chamberlain · Unknown culture / quote

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11In print by 1893 AD

Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; ’Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ’tis the key of gladness.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Turkish · Unknown culture / quote

Meaning: Act while a worthwhile opportunity is available, and meet difficulty with patience. The verse combines timely effort with endurance, but neither urgency nor patience guarantees happiness, and a necessary delay or a decision to decline can be reasonable.

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12In print by 1893 AD

Bootless grief hurts a man’s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: R. Chamberlain · Unknown culture / quote

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13c. 1619 AD

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

John Selden / quote

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14In print by 1893 AD

Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear Reviling language; with an angry man Be never angry; blessings give for curses.

Unresolved attribution · printed label: Manu · Unknown culture / quote