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Patience: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
O there are Voices of the Past, Links of a broken chain, Wings that can bear me back to Times Which cannot come again; Yet God forbid that I should lose The echoes that remain!— ADELAIDE A. PROCTER — Voices of the
Past What's past is prologue.— Shakespeare — Tempest. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 253.
The past Hours weak and gray With the spoil which their toil Raked together From the conquest but One could foil.— SHELLEY — Prometheus Unbound. Act IV. Sc. 1.
The eternal landscape of the past.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. Pt. XLVI.
For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago.— WORDSWORTH — The Solitary Reaper.
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.— WORDSWORTH — Ode. Intimations of Immortality. St. 10.
That awful independent on to-morrow! Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past; Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly. S.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 322.
With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne, And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.— WM. R. ALGER — Oriental Poetry.
Mussud's Praise of the Camel. And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture. น. E. B. BROWNING-Prometheus Bound. I worked with patience which means almost power.— E. B. BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. III. L. 205.
But there are times when patience proves at fault.— ROBERT BROWNING — Paracelsus. Sc. 3.
There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.— BURKE — Observations on a Late
Publication on the Present State of the Nation. To bear is to conquer our fate.— CAMPBELL — Lines Written on Visiting a
Scene in Argyleshire. Patience and shuffle the cards.— CERVANTES — Don Quixote. Pt. II. Bk. I. Ch. VI.
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence. C.— CHAUCER — The Clerkes Tale. V. L. 13,254.
Patience is sorrow's salve.— CHURCHILL — Prophecy of Famine. L. 363.
His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.— CRABBE — The Borough. Letter XVII.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.— BENJ. DISRAELI — Contarini Fleming. Pt. IV. Ch. V.
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.— HERBERT — The Church Porch. St. 72.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.— SAM'L JOHNSON — The Vanity of Human Wishes. L. 352.
All things come round to him who will but wait.— LONGFELLOW — Tales of a Wayside Inn. The Student's Tale. Pt. I.
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!— LONGFELLOW — Hiawatha. Pt. X.
Hiawatha's Wooing. Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LONGFELLOW A Psalm of Life St. 9. Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. 1..— LOWELL — Columbus. L. 241.
Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 568.
A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 195.
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 81.
Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.— Shakespeare — Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 47.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?— Shakespeare — Othello. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 376.
I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 10.
I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things. Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this. S. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 169. Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.— Shakespeare — Pericles. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 139.
She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek; she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 114.
น. Since you will buckle fortune on my back, To bear her burthen, whether I will or no, I must have patience to endure the load.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 228.
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 111.
That which in mean men we entitle patience Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 33.
There's some ill planet reigns; I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favorable.— Shakespeare — Winter's Tale. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 105.
'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that ring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 27.
Durum! sed levius fit patientiâ Quicquid corrigere est nefas. It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.— HORACE — Carmina. I. 24. 19.
Æquo animo pœnam, qui meruere, ferant. Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently.— OVID — Amorum. II. 7. 12.
Sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo pati. Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.— PHEDRUS — Fabulæ. I. 26. 12.
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.— SENECA — De Animi Tranquilitate. X.
Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia. Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness.— SYRUS — Maxims.
Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis. Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.— VIRGIL — Eneid. I. 207.
Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est. Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.— VIRGIL — Eneid. V. 710.
La patience est amère, mais son fruit est doux. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.— ROUSSEAU
La patience est l'art d'espérer. Patience is the art of hoping.— VAUVENARGUES — Réflexions. CCLI.
Patience et longueur de temps. Font plus que force ni que rage. By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.— LA FONTAINE — Fables. II. 11.