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Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
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.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that read more
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
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?
Patience means restraining one's inclinations.
Patience means restraining one's inclinations.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
