Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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| text = <poem>Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
Perfer et obdura; dolor hie tibi proderit olim.
Have patienee and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.
Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.
Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. Peledhub—Fables. I. 26. 12. </poem>
La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Rousseau.
Nihil tarn acerbum est in quo hod asquus animus solatium inveniat.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
Seneca—De Animi Tranquilitate. X.
7
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 81.
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this.
Julius Caisar. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 169.
A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 195.
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 111.
n I do oppose
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
The very tyranny and rage of his.
Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 10.
'Tis all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L.
27.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 376.
Had it pleas'd heaven
To try me with affliction * * *
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience.
Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 47.
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
Extremity out of act.
Pericles. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 139.
She sat like patience on a monument
Smiling at grief.
Twelfth Night. Act II. Cic. 4. L. 117.
Furor fit lsesa ssepius patientia.
Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness.
Syrus—Maxims. 289.
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| text = La patience est l'art d'esperer.
Patience is the art of hoping.
Vauvenargues—Reflexions. CCLI:
Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.
Persevere and preserve yourselves for better
circumstances.
Vergil—Æneid. I. 207.
Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.
Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.
Vergil—Æneid. V. 710.
PATRIOTISM
The die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish
with my country was my unalterable determination.
John Adams—Works. Vol. IV. P. 8. In a
conversation with Jonathan Sewell. (1774)
(Peele in Edward I [1584?] used the phrase
"Live or die, sink or swim.
