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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."

"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."

"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."

"When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."

"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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