PATIENCE PATIENCE
The past Hours weak and gray
With the spoil which their toil
Raked together
From the conquest but One could foil.
I need not ask thee if that hand, now calmed.
Has any Roman soldier mauled and knuckled,
For thou wert dead, and buried and embalmed,
Ere Romulus and Remus had been suckled:
Antiquity appears to have begun
Long after that primeval race was run.
Horace Smith—Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's Exhibition.
Oh, had I but Aladdin's lamp
Tho' only for a day,
I'd try to find a link to bind
The joys that pass away.
Charles Swain—Oh, Had I but Aladdin's
Lamp.
The eternal landscape of the past.
| author = Tennyson
| work = In Memoriam. Pt. XLVI.
Oh seize the instant time: you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.
Trench—Poems. (Ed. 1865) P. 303.
Proverbs, Turkish and Persian.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Doudney)
Many a woman has a past; but I am told she
has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
| author = Oscar Wilde
| work = Lady Windermere's Fan. Act
I. A Woman with a Past. Title of a Novel
by Mrs. Berens. Pub. 1886.
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.
Wordsworth—Ode. Intimations of Immortality. St. 10.
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago.
Wordsworth—The Solitary Reaper.
That awful independent on to-morrow!
Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past;
Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile
Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 322.
PATIENCE
With strength and patience all his grievous loads
are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a
thorn.
Wm. R. Alger—Oriental Poetry, Mussud's
Praise of the Camel.
I worked with patience which means almost
power.
E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. Bk. III. L.
.
12 And I must bear
What is ordained with patience, being aware
Necessity doth front the universe
With an invincible gesture.
E. B. Browning—Prometheus Bound.
But there are times when patience proves at fault.
Robert Browning—Paracelsus. Sc. 3.
There is however a limit at which forbearance
ceases to be a virtue.
Burke—Observations on a Late Publication on
the Present State of the Nation.
Patience and shuffle the cards.
| author = Cervantes
| work = Don Quixote.
| place = Pt. II. Bk. I.
Ch. VI.
Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by hir wordes ne hir face
Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence,
Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
Chaucer—The Clerkes Tale. V. L. 13,254.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
CsancBiisu—Prophecy of Famine. L. 363.
His patient soul endures what Heav'n ordains,
But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.
Crabbe—The Borough. Letter XVII.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benj. Disraeli—Contarini Fleming. Pt. r^.
Ch. V.
But the waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
Sarah Doudney—Psalms of Life. The Hardest Time of All,
The worst speak something good; if all want
sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
| author = Herbert
| work = The Church Porch. St. 72.
Durum! sed levius fit patientia
Quicquid corrigere est nefas.
It is hard! But what can not be removed,
becomes lighter through patience.
Horace—Carmina. I. 24. 19.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = The Vanity of Human
Wishes. L. 352.
Patience et longueur de temps.
Font plus que force ni que rage.
By time and toil we sever
What strength and rage could never.
La Fontaine—Fables. II. 11.
Rule by patience, Laughing Water!
| author = Longfellow
| work = Hiawatha. Pt. X. Hiawatha's
Wooing.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
| author = Longfellow
| work = A Psalm of Life. St. 9.
{{Hoyt quote
| num = | text = <poem>All things come round to him who will but wait. | author = Longfellow | work = Tales of a Wayside Inn. The
Student's Tale. Pt. I.
| seealso = (See also Milton under Service)
