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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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Books about Patience
