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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Samuel Johnson

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Horace

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With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

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But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

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Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

Book of Proverbs

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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets

Jim

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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed.

I Ching

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The greatest power is often simple patience.

E. Joseph Crossman

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Infinite patience brings immediate results.

Wayne W Dyer

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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napolean Hill

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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ideda

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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

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Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Immanuel Kant

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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Peter Marshall

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God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.

Phyllis Mcginley

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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Turkish Proverb

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