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Exlpore more Patience quotes
"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."
"Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events."
"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."
"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."
"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."
"Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure."
"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."
Explore more quotes by Harper Lee
"Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on.H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke."
"The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won't be that way much longer."
"Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?"
"How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed."
"We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us."
"The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint."
"I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world."
"Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen."
"As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons."
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