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 PATIENCE PATIENCE

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh seize the instant time: you never will With waters once passed by impel the mill. Trench—Poems. (Ed. 1865) P. 303. Proverbs, Turkish and Persian. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Doudney) Many a woman has a past; but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit. | author = Oscar Wilde | work = Lady Windermere's Fan. Act I. A Woman with a Past. Title of a Novel by Mrs. Berens. Pub. 1886. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. Wordsworth—Ode. Intimations of Immortality. St. 10. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago. Wordsworth—The Solitary Reaper. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 322. PATIENCE 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I worked with patience which means almost power. E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. Bk. III. L.. 12 And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture. E. B. Browning—Prometheus Bound. But there are times when patience proves at fault. Robert Browning—Paracelsus. Sc. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Patience and shuffle the cards. | author = Cervantes | work = Don Quixote. | place = Pt. II. Bk. I. Ch. VI. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. Chaucer—The Clerkes Tale. V. L. 13,254. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Patience is sorrow's salve. CsancBiisu—Prophecy of Famine. L. 363. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains, But neither feels nor fears ideal pains. Crabbe—The Borough. Letter XVII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. Benj. Disraeli—Contarini Fleming. Pt. r^. Ch. V. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all. Sarah Doudney—Psalms of Life. The Hardest Time of All, The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience. | author = Herbert | work = The Church Porch. St. 72. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Durum! sed levius fit patientia Quicquid corrigere est nefas. It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience. Horace—Carmina. I. 24. 19. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. | author = Samuel Johnson | work = The Vanity of Human Wishes. L. 352. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rule by patience, Laughing Water! | author = Longfellow | work = Hiawatha. Pt. X. Hiawatha's Wooing. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. | author = Longfellow | work = A Psalm of Life. St. 9. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Patience | page = 583 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All things come round to him who will but wait. | author = Longfellow | work = Tales of a Wayside Inn. The Student's Tale. Pt. I. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Milton}} under {{sc|Service}})