Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
[Fr., Patience et longueur de read more

By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
[Fr., Patience et longueur de temps.
Font plus que force ni que rage.]

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

I worked with patience which means almost power.

I worked with patience which means almost power.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives read more

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.