"Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it."
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"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."
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"All things come round to him who will but wait."
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"We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast"
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"In order to make friends you must first be friendly"
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"Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them."
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"Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible."
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"Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter."
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"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
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"A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!"
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"Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things."
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"To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship."
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"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."
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"It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance"
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"All things come to him who mates."
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"Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most."
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"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."
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"Patience and shuffle the cards."
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"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."
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"It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you."
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