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They also serve who only stand and wait.
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a read more
With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by read more
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne his face
Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.