Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a…

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

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Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary

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At the bottom of patience there is heaven. - View Quote Details on At the bottom of patience there is heaven.
Patience is the art of hoping. - View Quote Details on Patience is the art of hoping.
We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within. - View Quote Details on We have only to be patient, to pray, and to…
Patience is sorrow’s salve. - View Quote Details on Patience is sorrow’s salve.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength. - View Quote Details on Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin…
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. - View Quote Details on We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg…
Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms: and he, that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make shipwreck, and drown himself; first, in the cares and sorrows of this world; and, then, in perdition. - View Quote Details on Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep…
Beware the fury of a patient man. - View Quote Details on Beware the fury of a patient man.
Abused patience turns to fury. - View Quote Details on Abused patience turns to fury.
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. - View Quote Details on Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal.