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Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
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.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
