How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello, Act ii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Julius Cæsar, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
I worked with patience, which means almost power.
Aurora Leigh, Bk. III. E.B. BROWNING.
Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
Paradise Lost, Bk. II. MILTON.
Patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
The Vanity of Human Wishes. DR. S. JOHNSON.
Patience, my lord! why, 't is the soul of peace;
Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven;
It makes men look like gods. The best of men
That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer,
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
The Honest Whore, Pt. I. Act i. Sc. 12. T. DEKKER.
PATRIOTISM.
They love their land, because it is their own,
And scorn to give aught other reason why.
Connecticut. F-G. HALLECK.
No factious voice
Called them unto the field of generous fame,
But the pure consecrated love of home;
No deeper feeling sways us, when it wakes
In all its greatness.
The Graves of the Patriots. J.G. PERCIVAL.
The worst of rebels never arm
To do their king and country harm,
But draw their swords to do them good,
As doctors use, by letting blood.
Hudibras. S. BUTLER.