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An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
-Danish proverb
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-Danish proverb
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You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.
-Anon.
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Rome was not built in a day.
-Proverb
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
-Proverb
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
-Proverb
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
-Proverb
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Patience is the key to paradise.
-Proverb
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Patience is passion tamed.
-Lyman Abbott
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
-Joseph Addison
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Slow and steady wins the race.
-Aesop
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Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply dont count.
-Robert Anthony
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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
-Matthew Arnold
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
-W. H. Auden
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
-Francis Bacon
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Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
-Arnold Bennett
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The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
N.B.: From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait.
-Bible, Lamentations 3:25
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
-Paul Boese
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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
-Jerry Brown
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius.
-Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
-Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
-Horace Bushnell
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If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
-Jim Carrey
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Patience and shuffle the cards.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
-Charlie Chaplin
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
-Lord Chesterfield
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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
-William Cobbett
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
-Confucius
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-Leonardo DaVinci
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
-Leonardo DaVinci
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
-John Dryden
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Oh that my Pow'r to Saving were confin
-John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I, l. 999 - 1005, 1681
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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
-Thomas Alva Edison
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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
-Albert Einstein
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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
-Epictetus
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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
-Epictetus
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
-William Faulkner
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Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
-Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
-B. C. Forbes
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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -
-St. Francis De Sales
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He that can have patience can have what he will.
-Benjamin Franklin
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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
-Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
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Patience means self-suffering.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
-Arnold Glasgow
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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
-Johann von Goethe
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
-Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647
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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
-George Granville
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There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third.
But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.
-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891
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If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
-Hesiod
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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
-Horace, Odes, 15
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It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance
-Thomas Henry Huxley, On Medical Education, Collected Essays vol. 3, 1870
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Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
-Holbrook Jackson
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
-Barbara Johnson
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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
-Samuel Johnson
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Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
-Juvenal
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All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
-Franz Kafka
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
-Rudyard Kipling
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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
-Jean De La Fontaine
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.
-Sri Anandamayi Ma
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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
-Joseph De Maistre
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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
-Philip Massinger
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Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.
-Neal A. Maxwell
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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
-Bill Mcglashen
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I saw a ship of material build
(Her standards set, her brave apparel on)
Directed as by madness mere
Against a solid iceberg steer,
Nor budge it, though the infactuate ship went down.
The impact made huge ice-cubes fall
Sullen in tons that crashed the deck;
But that one avalanche was all--
No other movement save the foundering wreck.
Along the spurs of ridges pale,
Not any slenderest shaft and frail,
A prism over glass-green gorges lone,
Toppled; or lace or traceries fine,
Nor pendant drops in grot or mine
Were jarred, when the stunned ship went down.
Nor sole the gulls in cloud that wheeled
Circling one snow-flanked peak afar,
But nearer fowl the floes that skimmed
And crystal beaches, felt no jar.
No thrill transmitted stirred the lock
Of jack-straw neddle-ice at base;
Towers indermined by waves--the block
Atilt impending-- kept their place.
Seals, dozing sleek on sliddery ledges
Slipt never, when by loftier edges
Through the inertia overthrown,
The impetuous ship in bafflement went down.
Hard Berg (methought), so cold, so vast,
With mortal damps self-overcast;
Exhaling still thy dankish breath--
Adrift dissolving, bound for death;
Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one--
A lumbering lubbard loitering slow,
Impingers rue thee ad go slow
Sounding thy precipice below,
Nor stir the slimy slug that sprawls
Along thy dead indifference of walls.
-Herman Melville, The Berg (A Dream)
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Patience is the key to contentment.
-Mohammed
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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.
-John Christian Morgenstern
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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
-Elliot Paul
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Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing
-George Perera
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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
-Wilferd A. Peterson
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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.
-Plautus
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
-W. B. Prescott
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Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.
-Swami Ramdas
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There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
-C. S. Robinson
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Patience is also a form of action.
-Auguste Rodin
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
-Joseph Roux
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
-Sa'di
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Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.
-Anne W. Schaef
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If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
-Marquise De SeVigne
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Who can be patient in extremes? Henry Vi
-William Shakespeare
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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
-William Shakespeare
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That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
-William Shakespeare
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How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
-William Shakespeare
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My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
-Henry Wheeler Shaw
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I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
-Dame Edith Sitwell
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.
-Philip Dormer Stanhope, letter to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq., January 15, 1753
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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.
-Publilius Syrus
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
-Margaret Thatcher
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The strongest of all warriors are these two
-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.
-Source Unknown
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Patience carries a lot of wait
-Source Unknown
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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.
-Source Unknown
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A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
-Source Unknown
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If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.
-Source Unknown
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Patience is counting down without blasting off
-Source Unknown
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Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.
-Source Unknown
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Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.
-Source Unknown
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
-John Updike, Confessions of a Wild Bore
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
-Voltaire (Fran
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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Patience, though I have not
The thing that I require,
I must of force, God wot,
Forbear my most desire;
For no ways can I find
To sail against the wind.
Patience, do what they will
To work me woe or spite,
I shall content me still
To think both day and night;
To think and hold my peace,
Since there is no redress.
Patience, withouten blame,
For I offended nought,
I know they know the same,
Though they have changed their thought.
Was ever thought so moved
To hate that it hath loved?
Patience of all my harm,
For fortune is my foe;
Patience must be the charm
To heal me of my woe.
Patience without offence
Is a painful patience.
-Sir Thomas Wyatt, Patience, Though I Have Not.
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