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Patience is sorrow's salve.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by read more
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne his face
Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through
patience.
[Lat., Durum! sed levius fir read more
It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through
patience.
[Lat., Durum! sed levius fir patientia
Quicquid corrigere est nefas.]
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.