Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
—Seneca
Showing posts with label patience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patience. Show all posts
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Wednesday, August 08, 2018
Monday, January 22, 2018
Post #2496
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.
—Ezekiel Hopkins
—Ezekiel Hopkins
Friday, December 15, 2017
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Post #2076
A man of quick and active wit
For drudgery is more unfit,
Compared to those of duller parts,
Than running nags are to draw carts.
—Samuel Butler
For drudgery is more unfit,
Compared to those of duller parts,
Than running nags are to draw carts.
—Samuel Butler
Friday, June 12, 2015
Post #1835
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
—Horace Bushnell
—Horace Bushnell
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Friday, January 30, 2015
Post #1740
If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for destruction; thou are dieted for health.
—Thomas Fuller
—Thomas Fuller
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Post #1728
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.
—Charles Caleb Colton
—Charles Caleb Colton
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Monday, September 01, 2014
Post #1631
A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly.
—Sanskrit
—Sanskrit
Monday, August 04, 2014
Post #1611
Us old buzzards can spot a dying mouse from 10,000 feet up. Us old buzzards have the sharpest eyes in creation. Right now I'm studying the terrain.
—Senator Seabright Cooley (played by Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent)
—Senator Seabright Cooley (played by Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent)
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Post #1524
Do not expect the ship to return loaded with precious treasures, without being exposed to the stormy deep.
—Pietro Metastasio
—Pietro Metastasio
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Friday, October 05, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
Post #981
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
—Robert Frost
—Robert Frost
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Post #708
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
—Friedrich von Logau
—Friedrich von Logau
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
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