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"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
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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."
"It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times."
"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."
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
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