Patience, my lord. Why, ’tis the soul of peace. Of all…

Patience, my lord. Why, ’tis the soul of peace.
Of all the virtues ’tis near’st kin to heaven.
It makes men look like gods; the best of men
That e’er wore earth about him was a sufferer,
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breath’d.

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Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton The Honest Whore Part One, act V scene II

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