“ Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you. ”
- Marlene Dietrich- Copy
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“ The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ”
- Eden Phillpotts- Copy
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“ Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other. ”
- John Christian Morgenstern- Copy
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“ A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. ”
- William Faulkner- Copy
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“ There was never yet the philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination. ”
- Bernard Baruch- Copy
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“ Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait — not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them. ”
- Barbara Sher- Copy
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“ Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. But while we wait, we need to prepare symbolically a place for our hopes and dreams. ”
- Sarah Ban Breathnach- Copy
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“ No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 124
“ To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders… ”
- Helena Petrova Blavatsky- Copy
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“ The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God… and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. ”
- Orson F. Whitney- Copy
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“ No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently — and tolerantly — to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend… ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken — and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ”
- Margaret Mitchell- Copy
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“ Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. ”
- Hermann Hesse- Copy
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“ By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims; they do not cheat; they do not try to persuade at any cost. They appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority; they are often frank about their ignorance… ”
- Jacob Bronowski- Copy
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“ Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom… ”
- Theodore L. Cuyler- Copy
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