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"I work with patience, which is almost power."
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"And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes"
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"Don't halloo until you're out of the wood."
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"A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience."
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"Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad."
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"I’m saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal—assuming that ever happens—I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I’m done walking away from things I want just because they don’t come easily. You’re worth the work."
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"patience is an integral part of talent."
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"A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet."
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"Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence."
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"Patience, increasing patience"
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"Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?"
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"See your road through."
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"He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval."
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"We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back."
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"There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy."
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"The best fire doesna flare up the soonest."
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"I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber."
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"You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring."
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"She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding."
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