"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
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"It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
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"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
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"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart."
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"We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it."
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"When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need."
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"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."
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"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all."
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"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."
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"Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience."
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"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."
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"Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience."
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"You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
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"Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod."
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"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew."
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"Genius is eternal patience."
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"To lose patience is to lose the battle."
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"we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers"
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"Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour."
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