The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

—William H. Borah

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More quotations tagged with “patience”

I have many things I want out of life, but I’m practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

—Jude Deveraux in Counterfeit Lady

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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

attention patience

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love… but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

—Margaret Thatcher

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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

—Logan Pearsall Smith

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