"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."
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"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
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"Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper."
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"Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results."
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"'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of."
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"I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!"
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"Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want."
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"Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail."
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"Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds."
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"We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra."
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"Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?"
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"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."
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"Talent is long patience."
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"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."
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"In your patience ye are strong."
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"Patience is sorrow's salve."
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"When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development."
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"Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."
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