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"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
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"Don't be afraid to go slow, only be afraid of standing still."

"All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair."

"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."

"The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do."

"Chew off a little every day, because it's hard to swallow a whole pie at once."

"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."

"If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs."

"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 was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."

"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."

"Do not worry eat three square meals a day say your prayers be courteous to your creditors keep your digestion good exercise go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy but my friend these I reckon will give you a good life."

"I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth I shall have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside me."

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

"Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech."
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