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Impatience: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. 20. L. 381. Pope's trans.

I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, Nor long summer bide so late; And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, For some things are ill to wait.— JEAN INGELOW — Song of Seven. Seven

Seven Times Two. I am on fire To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh And yet not ours.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 117.