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"Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices."
"The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity."
"For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill."
"Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well."
"But there are times when patience proves at fault."
"A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."
"The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait."
"Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings."
"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
"Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry."
"Patience means self-suffering."
"Bear patiently with a rival."
"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."
"Patience is the courage of virtue."
"It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient."
"The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience."
"Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience."
"Rule by patience, Laughing Water!"
"I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project."